Looking-glass River Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED CFCF AGAG HIHI JKLK| Smooth it glides upon its travel | A |
| Here a wimple there a gleam | B |
| O the clean gravel | A |
| O the smooth stream | B |
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| Sailing blossoms silver fishes | C |
| Pave pools as clear as air | D |
| How a child wishes | E |
| To live down there | D |
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| We can see our colored faces | C |
| Floating on the shaken pool | F |
| Down in cool places | C |
| Dim and very cool | F |
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| Till a wind or water wrinkle | A |
| Dipping marten plumping trout | G |
| Spreads in a twinkle | A |
| And blots all out | G |
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| See the rings pursue each other | H |
| All below grows black as night | I |
| Just as if mother | H |
| Had blown out the light | I |
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| Patience children just a minute | J |
| See the spreading circles die | K |
| The stream and all in it | L |
| Will clear by and by | K |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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