Old Susan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHIJJFF KKLM| When Susan's work was done she'd sit | A |
| With one fat guttering candle lit | A |
| And window opened wide to win | B |
| The sweet night air to enter in | B |
| There with a thumb to keep her place | C |
| She'd read with stern and wrinkled face | C |
| Her mild eyes gliding very slow | D |
| Across the letters to and fro | D |
| While wagged the guttering candle flame | E |
| In the wind that through the window came | E |
| And sometimes in the silence she | F |
| Would mumble a sentence audibly | F |
| Or shake her head as if to say | G |
| You silly souls to act this way | G |
| And never a sound from night I'd hear | H |
| Unless some far off cock crowed clear | I |
| Or her old shuffling thumb should turn | J |
| Another page and rapt and stern | J |
| Through her great glasses bent on me | F |
| She'd glance into reality | F |
| And shake her round old silvery head | K |
| With You I thought you was in bed | K |
| Only to tilt her book again | L |
| And rooted in Romance remain | M |
Walter De La Mare
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about Old Susan poem by Walter De La Mare
Best Poems of Walter De La Mare