Opening The Window Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH| THUS I lift the sash so long | A |
| Shut against the flight of song | A |
| All too late for vain excuse | B |
| Lo my captive rhymes are loose | B |
| - | |
| Rhymes that flitting through my brain | C |
| Beat against my window pane | C |
| Some with gayly colored wings | D |
| Some alas with venomed stings | D |
| - | |
| Shall they bask in sunny rays | E |
| Shall they feed on sugared praise | E |
| Shall they stick with tangled feet | F |
| On the critic's poisoned sheet | F |
| - | |
| Are the outside winds too rough | G |
| Is the world not wide enough | G |
| Go my winged verse and try | H |
| Go like Uncle Toby's fly | H |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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