Sephina Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDDCEED FFGGDDDDDDHHIFJJJJF FFKLLLJJJMNOOPPDO POOJJDDOPOOOP J QQRRDPPDRRRRJS SD

Black lacqueys at the wide flung doorA
Stand mute as men of woodB
Gleams like a pool the ballroom floorA
A burnished solitudeC
A hundred waxen tapers shineD
From silver sconces softly pineD
'Cello fiddle mandolineD
To music deftly wooedC
And dancers in cambric satin silkE
With glancing hair and cheeks like milkE
Wreathe curtsey intertwineD
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The drowse of roses lulls the airF
Wafted up the marble stairF
Like warbling water clucks the talkG
From room to room in splendour walkG
Guests smiling in the ry sheenD
Carmine and azure white and greenD
They stoop and languish pace and preenD
Bare shoulder painted fanD
Gemmed wrist and finger neck of swanD
And still the pluckt strings warble onD
Still from the snow bowered link lit streetH
The muffled hooves of horses beatH
And harness rings and foam fleckt bitI
Clanks as the slim heads toss and stareF
From deep dark eyes Smiling at easeJ
Mount to the porch the pomped grandeesJ
In lonely state by twos and threesJ
Exchanging languid courtesiesJ
While torches fume and flareF
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And now the banquet calls A blareF
Of squalling trumpets clots the airF
And flocking out streams up the routK
And lilies nod to velvet's swishL
And peacocks prim on gilded dishL
Vast pies thick glazed and gaping fishL
Towering confections crisp as iceJ
Jellies aglare like cockatriceJ
With thousand savours tongues enticeJ
Fruits of all hues barbaric gloomM
Pomegranate quince and peach and plumN
Mandarine grape and cherry clearO
Englobe each glassy chandelierO
Where nectarous flowers their sweets distilP
Jessamine tuberose chamomillP
Wild eye narcissus anemoneD
Tendril of ivy and vineryO
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Now odorous wines the goblets fillP
Gold cradled meats the menials bearO
From gilded chair to gilded chairO
Now roars the talk like crashing seasJ
Foams upward to the painted friezeJ
Echoes and ebbs Still surges inD
To yelp of hautboy and violinD
Plumed and bedazzling rosed and rareO
Dance bemused with cheek aglowP
Stooping the green twined portal throughO
Sighing with laughter debonairO
That concourse of the proud and fairO
And lo 'La laP
Mamma Mamma '-
Falls a small cry in the dark and callsJ
'I see you standing there '-
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Fie fie Sephina not in bedQ
Crouched on the staircase overheadQ
Like ghost she gloats her lean hand laidR
On alabaster balustradeR
And gazes on and onD
Down on that wondrous to and froP
Till finger and foot are cold as snowP
And half the night is goneD
And dazzled eyes are sore besteadR
Nods drowsily the sleek locked headR
And vague and far spins fading outR
That rainbow coloured reeling routR
And with faint sighs her spirit fliesJ
Into deep sleepS
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Come Stranger peepS
Was ever cheek so wanD

Walter De La Mare



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