Go, Little Book - The Ancient Phrase Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE FFGG HHIIJJKLM NNNOOPQCC RRSSTT| GO little book the ancient phrase | A |
| And still the daintiest go your ways | A |
| My Otto over sea and land | B |
| Till you shall come to Nelly's hand | B |
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| How shall I your Nelly know | C |
| By her blue eyes and her black brow | D |
| By her fierce and slender look | E |
| And by her goodness little book | E |
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| What shall I say when I come there | F |
| You shall speak her soft and fair | F |
| See you shall say the love they send | G |
| To greet their unforgotten friend | G |
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| Giant Adulpho you shall sing | H |
| The next and then the cradled king | H |
| And the four corners of the roof | I |
| Then kindly bless and to your perch aloof | I |
| Where Balzac all in yellow dressed | J |
| And the dear Webster of the west | J |
| Encircle the prepotent throne | K |
| Of Shakespeare and of Calderon | L |
| Shall climb an upstart | M |
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| There with these | N |
| You shall give ear to breaking seas | N |
| And windmills turning in the breeze | N |
| A distant undetermined din | O |
| Without and you shall hear within | O |
| The blazing and the bickering logs | P |
| The crowing child the yawning dogs | Q |
| And ever agile high and low | C |
| Our Nelly going to and fro | C |
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| There shall you all silent sit | R |
| Till when perchance the lamp is lit | R |
| And the day's labour done she takes | S |
| Poor Otto down and warming for our sakes | S |
| Perchance beholds alive and near | T |
| Our distant faces reappear | T |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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