A Pinch Of Salt Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII| When a dream is born in you | A |
| With a sudden clamorous pain | B |
| When you know the dream is true | A |
| And lovely with no flaw nor stain | B |
| O then be careful or with sudden clutch | C |
| You'll hurt the delicate thing you prize so much | C |
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| Dreams are like a bird that mocks | D |
| Flirting the feathers of his tail | E |
| When you seize at the salt box | D |
| Over the hedge you'll see him sail | E |
| Old birds are neither caught with salt nor chaff | F |
| They watch you from the apple bough and laugh | F |
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| Poet never chase the dream | G |
| Laugh yourself and turn away | H |
| Mask your hunger let it seem | G |
| Small matter if he come or stay | H |
| But when he nestles in your hand at last | I |
| Close up your fingers tight and hold him fast | I |
Robert Von Ranke Graves
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