Dinah Kneading Dough Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEDDFFDD GGBBHHDDI have seen full many a sight | A |
Born of day or drawn by night | A |
Sunlight on a silver stream | B |
Golden lilies all a dream | B |
Lofty mountains bold and proud | C |
Veiled beneath the lacelike cloud | C |
But no lovely sight I know | D |
Equals Dinah kneading dough | D |
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Brown arms buried elbow deep | E |
Their domestic rhythm keep | E |
As with steady sweep they go | D |
Through the gently yielding dough | D |
Maids may vaunt their finer charms | F |
Naught to me like Dinah's arms | F |
Girls may draw or paint or sew | D |
I love Dinah kneading dough | D |
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Eyes of jet and teeth of pearl | G |
Hair some say too tight a curl | G |
But the dainty maid I deem | B |
Very near perfection's dream | B |
Swift she works and only flings | H |
Me a glance the least of things | H |
And I wonder does she know | D |
That my heart is in the dough | D |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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