Cumberland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFDF AGHG IJKJ ALML NLLL KOLO PLLL LLLL LQOQ| The old old King of Cumberland | A |
| Awoke with bristling beard | B |
| Crouched listening in the darkness | C |
| To a sound that he had heard | D |
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| He leaned upon his foursquare bed | E |
| His thumb beneath his chin | F |
| Hearkening after that which had stirred | D |
| The dream that he was in | F |
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| The old old King of Cumberland | A |
| Muttered Twas not the sea | G |
| Gushing upon Shlievlisskin rocks | H |
| That wakened me | G |
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| Thunder from midmost night it was not | I |
| For yonder at the bars | J |
| Burn to their summer setting her | K |
| Clear constellated stars | J |
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| The old old King of Cumberland | A |
| Mused yet Rats ever did | L |
| Rove from their holes and clink my spurs | M |
| And gnaw my coverlid | L |
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| Oft hath a little passing breeze | N |
| Along this valance stirred | L |
| But in this stagnant calm 'twas not | L |
| The wind I heard | L |
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| Some keener stranger quieter closer | K |
| Voice it was me woke | O |
| And silence like a billow drowned | L |
| The word he spoke | O |
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| His chamber walls were cloaked with dark | P |
| Shadow did thickly brood | L |
| And in the vague all listening night | L |
| A presence stood | L |
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| Sudden a gigantic hand he thrust | L |
| Into his bosom cold | L |
| Where now no surging restless beat | L |
| Its long tale told | L |
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| Swept on him then as there he sate | L |
| Terror icy chill | Q |
| 'Twas silence that had him awoke | O |
| His heart stood still | Q |
Walter De La Mare
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