The Patchwork Bonnet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAB DEFDE GHGGH IJGIK LHMLH| Across the room my silent love I throw | A |
| Where you sit sewing in bed by candlelight | B |
| Your young stern profile and industrious fingers | C |
| Displayed against the blind in a shadow show | A |
| To Dinda's grave delight | B |
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| The needle dips and pokes the cheerful thread | D |
| Runs after follow my leader down the seam | E |
| The patchwork pieces cry for joy together | F |
| O soon to sit as a crown on Dinda's head | D |
| Fulfilment of their dream | E |
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| Snippets and odd ends folded by forgotten | G |
| With camphor on a top shelf hard to find | H |
| Now wake to this most happy resurrection | G |
| To Dinda playing toss with a reel of cotton | G |
| And staring at the blind | H |
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| Dinda in sing song stretching out one hand | I |
| Calls for the playthings mother does not hear | J |
| Her mind sails far away on a patchwork Ocean | G |
| And all the world must wait till she touches land | I |
| So Dinda cries in fear | K |
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| Then Mother turns laughing like a young fairy | L |
| And Dinda smiles to see her look so kind | H |
| Calls out again for playthings playthings playthings | M |
| And now the shadows make an Umbrian Mary | L |
| Adoring on the blind | H |
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