In Lupum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGGHIJJJDII IIDDAA| BEYOND the gates thou gav'st a field to till | A |
| I have a larger on my window sill | A |
| A farm d'ye say Is this a farm to you | B |
| Where for all woods I spay one tuft of rue | B |
| And that so rusty and so small a thing | C |
| One shrill cicada hides it with a wing | C |
| Where one cucumber covers all the plain | D |
| And where one serpent rings himself in vain | D |
| To enter wholly and a single snail | E |
| Eats all and exit fasting to the pool | F |
| Here shall my gardener be the dusty mole | G |
| My only ploughman the mole | G |
| Here shall I wait in vain till figs be set | H |
| And till the spring disclose the violet | I |
| Through all my wilds a tameless mouse careers | J |
| And in that narrow boundary appears | J |
| Huge as the stalking lion of Algiers | J |
| Huge as the fabled boar of Calydon | D |
| And all my hay is at one swoop impresst | I |
| By one low flying swallow for her nest | I |
| Strip god Priapus of each attribute | I |
| Here finds he scarce a pedestal to foot | I |
| The gathered harvest scarcely brims a spoon | D |
| And all my vintage drips in a cocoon | D |
| Generous are you but I more generous still | A |
| Take back your farm and stand me half a gill | A |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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