Sephina Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDDCEED FFGGDDDDDDHHIFJJJJF FFKLLLJJJMNOOPPDO POOJJDDOPOOOP J QQRRDPPDRRRRJS SDBlack lacqueys at the wide flung door | A |
Stand mute as men of wood | B |
Gleams like a pool the ballroom floor | A |
A burnished solitude | C |
A hundred waxen tapers shine | D |
From silver sconces softly pine | D |
'Cello fiddle mandoline | D |
To music deftly wooed | C |
And dancers in cambric satin silk | E |
With glancing hair and cheeks like milk | E |
Wreathe curtsey intertwine | D |
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The drowse of roses lulls the air | F |
Wafted up the marble stair | F |
Like warbling water clucks the talk | G |
From room to room in splendour walk | G |
Guests smiling in the ry sheen | D |
Carmine and azure white and green | D |
They stoop and languish pace and preen | D |
Bare shoulder painted fan | D |
Gemmed wrist and finger neck of swan | D |
And still the pluckt strings warble on | D |
Still from the snow bowered link lit street | H |
The muffled hooves of horses beat | H |
And harness rings and foam fleckt bit | I |
Clanks as the slim heads toss and stare | F |
From deep dark eyes Smiling at ease | J |
Mount to the porch the pomped grandees | J |
In lonely state by twos and threes | J |
Exchanging languid courtesies | J |
While torches fume and flare | F |
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And now the banquet calls A blare | F |
Of squalling trumpets clots the air | F |
And flocking out streams up the rout | K |
And lilies nod to velvet's swish | L |
And peacocks prim on gilded dish | L |
Vast pies thick glazed and gaping fish | L |
Towering confections crisp as ice | J |
Jellies aglare like cockatrice | J |
With thousand savours tongues entice | J |
Fruits of all hues barbaric gloom | M |
Pomegranate quince and peach and plum | N |
Mandarine grape and cherry clear | O |
Englobe each glassy chandelier | O |
Where nectarous flowers their sweets distil | P |
Jessamine tuberose chamomill | P |
Wild eye narcissus anemone | D |
Tendril of ivy and vinery | O |
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Now odorous wines the goblets fill | P |
Gold cradled meats the menials bear | O |
From gilded chair to gilded chair | O |
Now roars the talk like crashing seas | J |
Foams upward to the painted frieze | J |
Echoes and ebbs Still surges in | D |
To yelp of hautboy and violin | D |
Plumed and bedazzling rosed and rare | O |
Dance bemused with cheek aglow | P |
Stooping the green twined portal through | O |
Sighing with laughter debonair | O |
That concourse of the proud and fair | O |
And lo 'La la | P |
Mamma Mamma ' | - |
Falls a small cry in the dark and calls | J |
'I see you standing there ' | - |
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Fie fie Sephina not in bed | Q |
Crouched on the staircase overhead | Q |
Like ghost she gloats her lean hand laid | R |
On alabaster balustrade | R |
And gazes on and on | D |
Down on that wondrous to and fro | P |
Till finger and foot are cold as snow | P |
And half the night is gone | D |
And dazzled eyes are sore bestead | R |
Nods drowsily the sleek locked head | R |
And vague and far spins fading out | R |
That rainbow coloured reeling rout | R |
And with faint sighs her spirit flies | J |
Into deep sleep | S |
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Come Stranger peep | S |
Was ever cheek so wan | D |
Walter De La Mare
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