Melmillo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEDD FEAABBAAGG| Three and thirty birds there stood | A |
| In an elder in a wood | A |
| Called Melmillo flew off three | B |
| Leaving thirty in the tree | B |
| Called Melmillo nine now gone | C |
| And the boughs held twenty one | D |
| Called Melmillo and eighteen | E |
| Left but three to nod and preen | E |
| Called Melmillo three two one | D |
| Now of birds were feathers none | D |
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| Then stole slim Me millo in | F |
| To that wood all dusk and green | E |
| And with lean long palms outspread | A |
| Softly a strange dance did tread | A |
| Not a note of music she | B |
| Had for echoing company | B |
| All the birds were flown to rest | A |
| In the hollow of her breast | A |
| In the wood thorn elder willow | G |
| Danced alone lone danced Melmillo | G |
Walter De La Mare
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