Leopards At Knole Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBAB CDDDCD EFGFEF BHBBBB| Leopards on the gable ends | A |
| Leopards on the painted stair | B |
| Stiff the blazoned shield they bear | B |
| Or and gules a bend of vair | B |
| Leopards on the gable ends | A |
| Leopards everywhere | B |
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| Guard and vigil in the night | C |
| While the ancient house is sleeping | D |
| They three hundred years are keeping | D |
| Nightly from their stations leaping | D |
| Shadows black in moonlight bright | C |
| Roof to gable creeping | D |
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| Rigid when the day returns | E |
| Up aloft in sun or rain | F |
| Leopards at their posts again | G |
| Watch the shifting pageant's train | F |
| And their jewelled colour burns | E |
| In the window pane | F |
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| Often on the painted stair | B |
| As I passed abstractedly | H |
| Velvet footsteps two and three | B |
| Padded gravely after me | B |
| There was nothing nothing there | B |
| Nothing there to see | B |
Victoria Sackville-west
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