Ophelia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQHRS TUK| There runs a crisscross pattern of small leaves | A |
| Espalier in a fading summer air | B |
| And there Ophelia walks an azure flower | C |
| Whom wind and snowflakes and the sudden rain | D |
| Of love's wild skies have purified to heaven | E |
| There is a beauty past all weeping now | F |
| In that sweet crooked mouth that vacant smile | G |
| Only a lonely grey in those mad eyes | H |
| Which never on earth shall learn their loneliness | I |
| And when amid startled birds she sings lament | J |
| Mocking in hope the long voice of the stream | K |
| It seems her heart's lute hath a broken string | L |
| Ivy she hath that to old ruin clings | M |
| And rosemary that sees remembrance fade | N |
| And pansies deeper than the gloom of dreams | O |
| But ah if utterable would this earth | P |
| Remain the base unreal thing it is | Q |
| Better be out of sight of peering eyes | H |
| Out out of hearing of all useless words | R |
| Spoken of tedious tongues in heedless ears | S |
| And lest at last the world should learn heart secrets | T |
| Lest that sweet wolf from some dim thicket steal | U |
| Better the glassy horror of the stream | K |
Walter De La Mare
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