Comfort Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHB BAA BIJ AKAK| As I mused by the hearthside | A |
| Puss said to me | B |
| 'there burns the fire man | C |
| and here sit we | B |
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| Four walls around us | D |
| against the cold air | E |
| and the latch drawn close | F |
| to the draughty stair | E |
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| A roof o'er our heads | G |
| star proof moon immune | H |
| and a wind in the chimney | B |
| to wail us a tune ' | - |
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| 'What felicity ' miaowed he | B |
| 'where none may intrude | A |
| just man and beast met | A |
| in this solitude ' | - |
| - | |
| 'Dear God what security | B |
| comfort and bliss | I |
| and to think too what ages | J |
| have brought us to this ' | - |
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| 'You in your sheep's' wool coat | A |
| buttons of bone | K |
| and me in my fur about | A |
| on the warm hearthstone' | K |
Walter De La Mare
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