At The Play Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BBCC DDEE FFGH IJKK LLMM AA| Just above the boxes and where the high lights fall | A |
| Looketh down a carven face from out the gilded wall | A |
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| Van Dyke beard and broidered ruff silently confess | B |
| That he lived and loved perchance in days of Good Queen Bess | B |
| Laces fine and linen sheer curled and perfumed hair | C |
| Well became those gentlemen of gay insouciant air | C |
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| See He gazeth evermore at the stage below | D |
| Noteth well the players as they quickly come and go | D |
| Queens and kings and maidens fair motley fools and friars | E |
| Lords and ladies stately dames mounted knights and squires | E |
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| Well he knoweth all of them all the grave and gay | F |
| These are they he dreamt of in the far and far away | F |
| Saints and sinners see they come down the bygone years | G |
| And the world still shares with them its laughter and its tears | H |
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| Still we haunt the greenwood for love of Rosalind | I |
| Still we hear the Jester's bells ajingle on the wind | J |
| Still the frenzied Moor we fear Ah and even yet | K |
| Breathless wait before the tomb of all the Capulet | K |
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| Though the slow years pass away yet on land and sea | L |
| Follow we the Danish Prince in sad soliloquy | L |
| And I fancy sometimes when the round moon saileth high | M |
| Yet in Venice meet the Jew as he goeth by | M |
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| Just above the boxes and where the high lights fall | A |
| Looketh down a carven face from out the gilded wall | A |
Virna Sheard
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