To Minnie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFFEAADDGHHI JJKKDDLLMMJJN OPQQFFRSTSSUVTVU WWXYZA2B2B2C2C2LLMMD 2D2YE2| The red room with the giant bed | A |
| Where none but elders laid their head | A |
| The little room where you and I | B |
| Did for awhile together lie | B |
| And simple suitor I your hand | C |
| In decent marriage did demand | C |
| The great day nursery best of all | D |
| With pictures pasted on the wall | D |
| And leaves upon the blind | E |
| A pleasant room wherein to wake | F |
| And hear the leafy garden shake | F |
| And rustle in the wind | E |
| And pleasant there to lie in bed | A |
| And see the pictures overhead | A |
| The wars about Sebastopol | D |
| The grinning guns along the wall | D |
| The daring escalade | G |
| The plunging ships the bleating sheep | H |
| The happy children ankle deep | H |
| And laughing as they wade | I |
| All these are vanished clean away | J |
| And the old manse is changed to day | J |
| It wears an altered face | K |
| And shields a stranger race | K |
| The river on from mill to mill | D |
| Flows past our childhood's garden still | D |
| But ah we children never more | L |
| Shall watch it from the water door | L |
| Below the yew it still is there | M |
| Our phantom voices haunt the air | M |
| As we were still at play | J |
| And I can hear them call and say | J |
| How far is it to Babylon | N |
| - | |
| Ah far enough my dear | O |
| Far far enough from here | P |
| Smiling and kind you grace a shelf | Q |
| Too high for me to reach myself | Q |
| Reach down a hand my dear and take | F |
| These rhymes for old acquaintance' sake | F |
| Yet you have farther gone | R |
| Can I get there by candlelight | S |
| So goes the old refrain | T |
| I do not know perchance you might | S |
| But only children hear it right | S |
| Ah never to return again | U |
| The eternal dawn beyond a doubt | V |
| Shall break on hill and plain | T |
| And put all stars and candles out | V |
| Ere we be young again | U |
| - | |
| To you in distant India these | W |
| I send across the seas | W |
| Nor count it far across | X |
| For which of us forget | Y |
| The Indian cabinets | Z |
| The bones of antelope the wings of albatross | A2 |
| The pied and painted birds and beans | B2 |
| The junks and bangles beads and screens | B2 |
| The gods and sacred bells | C2 |
| And the load humming twisted shells | C2 |
| The level of the parlour floor | L |
| Was honest homely Scottish shore | L |
| But when we climbed upon a chair | M |
| Behold the gorgeous East was there | M |
| Be this a fable and behold | D2 |
| Me in the parlour as of old | D2 |
| And Minnie just above me set | Y |
| In the quaint Indian cabinet | E2 |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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