A Frosty Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC D EAFA A B D EGE A GHIH JIJI DKLK MFB D FMother | A |
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Alice dear what ails you | B |
Dazed and white and shaken | C |
Has the chill night numbed you | B |
Is it fright you have taken | C |
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Alice | D |
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Mother I am very well | E |
I felt never better | A |
Mother do not hold me so | F |
Let me write my letter | A |
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Mother | A |
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Sweet my dear what ails you | B |
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Alice | D |
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No but I am well | E |
The night was cold and frosty | G |
There's no more to tell | E |
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Mother | A |
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Ay the night was frosty | G |
Coldly gaped the moon | H |
Yet the birds seemed twittering | I |
Through green boughs of June | H |
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Soft and thick the snow lay | J |
Stars danced in the sky | I |
Not all the lambs of May day | J |
Skip so bold and high | I |
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Your feet were dancing Alice | D |
Seemed to dance on air | K |
You looked a ghost or angel | L |
In the starlight there | K |
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Your eyes were frosted starlight | M |
Your heart fire and snow | F |
Who was it said I love you | B |
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Alice | D |
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Mother let me go | F |
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Md Abdul Hamid: We read the poem in 1991-92.
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