The Keys Of Morning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GDHDICJCKLMLMNOC PQRQSOCOTCCCUVWVWhile at her bedroom window once | A |
Learning her task for school | B |
Little Louisa lonely sat | C |
In the morning clear and cool | B |
She slanted her small bead brown eyes | D |
Across the empty street | E |
And saw Death softly watching her | F |
In the sunshine pale and sweet | E |
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His was a long lean sallow face | G |
He sat with half shut eyes | D |
Like a old sailor in a ship | H |
Becalmed 'neath tropic skies | D |
Beside him in the dust he had set | I |
His staff and shady hat | C |
These peeping small Louisa saw | J |
Quite clearly where she sat | C |
The thinness of his coal black locks | K |
His hands so long and lean | L |
They scarcely seemed to grasp at all | M |
The keys that hung between | L |
Both were of gold but one was small | M |
And with this last did he | N |
Wag in the air as if to say | O |
quot Come hither child to me quot | C |
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Louisa laid her lesson book | P |
On the cold window sill | Q |
And in the sleepy sunshine house | R |
Went softly down until | Q |
She stood in the half opened door | S |
And peeped But strange to say | O |
Where Death just now had sunning sat | C |
Only a shadow lay | O |
Just the tall chimney's round topped cowl | T |
And the small sun behind | C |
Had with its shadow in the dust | C |
Called sleepy Death to mind | C |
But most she thought how strange it was | U |
Two keys that he should bear | V |
And that when beckoning he should wag | W |
The littlest in the air | V |
Walter De La Mare
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