Polonius Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBEFGAADHBIAJBKB| There haunts in Time's bare house an active ghost | A |
| Enamoured of his name Polonius | B |
| He moves small fingers much and all his speech | C |
| Is like a sampler of precisest words | B |
| Set in the pattern of a simpleton | D |
| His mirth floats eerily down chill corridors | B |
| His sigh it is a sound that loves a keyhole | E |
| His tenderness a faint court tarnished thing | F |
| His wisdom prates as from a wicker cage | G |
| His very belly is a pompous nought | A |
| His eye a page that hath forgot his errand | A |
| Yet in his brain his spiritual brain | D |
| Lies hid a child's demure small silver whistle | H |
| Which to his horror God blows unawares | B |
| And sets men staring It is sad to think | I |
| Might he but don indeed thin flesh and blood | A |
| And pace important to Law's inmost room | J |
| He would see much marvelling one immensely wise | B |
| Named Bacon who at sound of his youth's step | K |
| Would turn and call him Cousin for the likeness | B |
Walter De La Mare
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