To Rosabelle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEE FFGGHHIIJJKKLMFFNOFF P PQQRRSSTT| WHEN my young lady has grown great and staid | A |
| And in long raiment wondrously arrayed | A |
| She may take pleasure with a smile to know | B |
| How she delighted men folk long ago | B |
| For her long after then this tale I tell | C |
| Of the two fans and fairy Rosabelle | D |
| Hot was the day her weary sire and I | E |
| Sat in our chairs companionably nigh | E |
| Each with a headache sat her sire and I | E |
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| Instant the hostess waked she viewed the scene | F |
| Divined the giants' languor by their mien | F |
| And with hospitable care | G |
| Tackled at once an Atlantean chair | G |
| Her pigmy stature scarce attained the seat | H |
| She dragged it where she would and with her feet | H |
| Surmounted thence a Phaeton launched she crowned | I |
| The vast plateau of the piano found | I |
| And culled a pair of fans wherewith equipped | J |
| Our mountaineer back to the level slipped | J |
| And being landed with considerate eyes | K |
| Betwixt her elders dealt her double prize | K |
| The small to me the greater to her sire | L |
| As painters now advance and now retire | M |
| Before the growing canvas and anon | F |
| Once more approach and put the climax on | F |
| So she awhile withdrew her piece she viewed | N |
| For half a moment half supposed it good | O |
| Spied her mistake nor sooner spied than ran | F |
| To remedy and with the greater fan | F |
| In gracious better thought equipped the guest | P |
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| From ill to well from better on to best | P |
| Arts move the homely like the plastic kind | Q |
| And high ideals fired that infant mind | Q |
| Once more she backed once more a space apart | R |
| Considered and reviewed her work of art | R |
| Doubtful at first and gravely yet awhile | S |
| Till all her features blossomed in a smile | S |
| And the child waking at the call of bliss | T |
| To each she ran and took and gave a kiss | T |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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