Martha Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEEE EEFE GFHF AFFF IJKL FMNM| Once Once upon a time | A |
| Over and over again | B |
| Martha would tell us her stories | C |
| In the hazel glen | B |
| - | |
| Hers were those clear gray eyes | D |
| You watch and the story seems | E |
| Told by their beautifulness | E |
| Tranquil as dreams | E |
| - | |
| She'd sit with her two slim hands | E |
| Clasped round her bended knees | E |
| While we on our elbows lolled | F |
| And stared at ease | E |
| - | |
| Her voice and her narrow chin | G |
| Her grave small lovely head | F |
| Seemed half the meaning | H |
| Of the words she said | F |
| - | |
| Once Once upon a time | A |
| Like a dream you dream in the night | F |
| Fairies and gnomes stole out | F |
| In the leaf green light | F |
| - | |
| And her beauty far away | I |
| Would fade as her voice ran on | J |
| Till hazel and summer sun | K |
| And all were gone | L |
| - | |
| All fordone and forgot | F |
| And like clouds in the height of the sky | M |
| Our hearts stood still in the hush | N |
| Of an age gone by | M |
Walter De La Mare
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