Juliet's Nurse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEAFGHIJKLMNOIPQR STUHVVVWXYV| In old world nursery vacant now of children | A |
| With posied walls familiar fair demure | B |
| And facing southward o'er romantic streets | C |
| Sits yet and gossips winter's dark away | D |
| One gloomy vast glossy and wise and sly | E |
| And at her side a cherried country cousin | A |
| Her tongue claps ever like a ram's sweet bell | F |
| There's not a name but calls a tale to mind | G |
| Some marrowy patty of farce or melodram | H |
| There's not a soldier but hath babes in view | I |
| There's not on earth what minds not of the midwife | J |
| O widowhood that left me still espoused | K |
| Beauty she sighs o'er and she sighs o'er gold | L |
| Gold will buy all things even a sweet husband | M |
| Else only Heaven is left and farewell youth | N |
| Yet strangely in that money haunted head | O |
| The sad gemmed crucifix and incense blue | I |
| Is childhood once again Her memory | P |
| Is like an ant hill which a twig disturbs | Q |
| But twig stilled never And to see her face | R |
| Broad with sleek homely beams her babied hands | S |
| Ever like 'lighting doves and her small eyes | T |
| Blue wells a twinkle arch and lewd and pious | U |
| To darken all sudden into Stygian gloom | H |
| And paint disaster with uplifted whites | V |
| Is life's epitome She prates and prates | V |
| A waterbrook of words o'er twelve small pebbles | V |
| And when she dies some grey long summer evening | W |
| When the bird shouts of childhood through the dusk | X |
| 'Neath night's faint tapers then her body shall | Y |
| Lie stiff with silks of sixty thrifty years | V |
Walter De La Mare
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