Never-to-be Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DEFFAA GGHIJJ AAKKLM| Down by the waters of the sea | A |
| Reigns the King of Never to be | A |
| His palace walls are black with night | B |
| His torches star and moon s light | B |
| And for his timepiece deep and grave | C |
| Beats on the green unhastening wave | C |
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| Windswept are his high corridors | D |
| His pleasance the sea mantled shores | E |
| For sentinel a shadow stands | F |
| With hair in heaven and cloudy hands | F |
| And round his bed king's guards to be | A |
| Watch pines in iron solemnity | A |
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| His hound is mute his steed at will | G |
| Roams pastures deep with asphodel | G |
| His queen is to her slumber gone | H |
| His courtiers mute lie hewn in stone | I |
| He hath forgot where he did hide | J |
| His sceptre in the mountain side | J |
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| Grey capped and muttering mad is he | A |
| The childless King of Never to be | A |
| For all his people in the deep | K |
| Keep everlasting fast asleep | K |
| And all his realm is foam and rain | L |
| Whispering of what comes not again | M |
Walter De La Mare
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