Rhymes For Gloriana Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABCB DBEB F GHHH BBHB BIII B JIIKLIMK NIMBOILB P LIMI HPBP BHMH LQHQ| I THE DOLL UPON THE TOPMOST BOUGH | A |
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| This doll upon the topmost bough | A |
| This playmate gift in Christmas dress | B |
| Was taken down and brought to me | C |
| One sleety night most comfortless | B |
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| Her hair was gold her dolly sash | D |
| Was gray brocade most good to see | B |
| The dear toy laughed and I forgot | E |
| The ill the new year promised me | B |
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| II ON SUDDENLY RECEIVING A CURL LONG REFUSED | F |
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| Oh saucy gold circle of fairyland silk | G |
| Impudent intimate delicate treasure | H |
| A noose for my heart and a ring for my finger | H |
| Here in my study you sing me a measure | H |
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| Whimsy and song in my little gray study | B |
| Words out of wonderland praising her fineness | B |
| Touched with her pulsating delicate laughter | H |
| Saying The girl is all daring and kindness | B |
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| Saying Her soul is all feminine gameness | B |
| Trusting her insights ardent for living | I |
| She would be weeping with me and be laughing | I |
| A thoroughbred joyous receiving and giving | I |
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| III ON RECEIVING ONE OF GLORIANA'S LETTERS | B |
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| Your pen needs but a ruffle | J |
| To be Pavlova whirling | I |
| It surely is a scalawag | I |
| A scamping down the page | K |
| A pretty little May wind | L |
| The morning buds uncurling | I |
| And then the white sweet Russian | M |
| The dancer of the age | K |
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| Your pen's the Queen of Sheba | N |
| Such serious questions bringing | I |
| That merry rascal Solomon | M |
| Would show a sober face | B |
| And then again Pavlova | O |
| To set our spirits singing | I |
| The snowy swan bacchante | L |
| All glamour glee and grace | B |
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| IV IN PRAISE OF GLORIANA'S REMARKABLE GOLDEN HAIR | P |
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| The gleaming head of one fine friend | L |
| Is bent above my little song | I |
| So through the treasure pits of Heaven | M |
| In fancy's shoes I march along | I |
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| I wander seek and peer and ponder | H |
| In Splendor's last ensnaring lair | P |
| 'Mid burnished harps and burnished crowns | B |
| Where noble chariots gleam and flare | P |
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| Amid the spirit coins and gems | B |
| The plates and cups and helms of fire | H |
| The gorgeous treasure pits of Heaven | M |
| Where angel misers slake desire | H |
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| O endless treasure pits of gold | L |
| Where silly angel men make mirth | Q |
| I think that I am there this hour | H |
| Though walking in the ways of earth | Q |
Vachel Lindsay
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