The Isle Of Lone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCBC DBDB EAFA ADAA GBDB GHGH IDID BJBJ KKKK LMLM DNDN KOKO AKAK PDPD BKBK DKDK BKBK MDM LLLL DBDB KBKB

Three dwarfs there were which lived on an isleA
And the name of the isle was LoneB
And the names of the dwarfs were AlliolyleA
Lallerie MuziomoneB
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Alliolyle was green of eenB
Lallerie light of locksC
Muziomone was mild of mienB
As ewes in April flocksC
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Their house was small and sweet of the seaD
And pale as the Malmsey wineB
Their bowls were three and their beds were threeD
And their nightcaps white were nineB
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Their beds were of the holly woodE
Their combs of the tortoiseshellA
Their mirrors clear as wintry floodF
Frozen dark and snellA
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So each would lie on his plumpy pillowA
The moon for companyD
And hear the parrot scream to the billowA
And the billow roar replyA
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Sulphur parrots and parrots redG
Scarlet and flame and greenB
And five foot apes that jargon dD
In feathery tufted treenB
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And oh or ever the dawning shedG
On dreams a narrow flameH
Three gaping dwarfs gat out of bedG
And gazed upon the sameH
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At dawn they fished at noon they snaredI
Young foxes in the dellsD
At even on dew berries they faredI
And blew in their twisted shellsD
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Dark was the sea they gambolled inB
And thick with silver fishJ
Dark as green glass blown clear and thinB
To be a monarch's dishJ
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They sate to sup in a jasmine bowerK
Lit pale with flies of fireK
Their bowls the hue of the iris flowerK
And lemon their attireK
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Sweet wine in little cups they sippedL
And golden honeycombM
Into their bowls of cream they dippedL
Whipt light and white as foamM
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Alliolyle where the salt sea flowsD
Taught three old apes to singN
And there to the moon like a full blown roseD
They capered in a ringN
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But down to the shore skipped LallerieK
His parrot on his thumbO
And the twain they scritched in mockeryK
While the dancers go and comeO
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So alas in the evening rosy and stillA
Light haired LallerieK
Bitterly quarrelled with AlliolyleA
By the yellow sanded seaK
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The rising moon swam sweet and largeP
Before their furious eyesD
And they rolled and rolled to the coral margeP
Where the surf for ever criesD
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Too late too late comes MuziomoneB
Clear in the clear green seaK
Alliolyle lies not aloneB
But clasped with LallerieK
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He blows on his shell plaintive notesD
Ape parraquito beeK
Flock where a shoe on the salt wave floatsD
The shoe of LallerieK
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He fetches nightcaps one and nineB
Grey apes he dowers threeK
His house as fair as the Malmsey wineB
Seems sad as cypress treeK
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Three bowls he brims with honeycombM
To feast the bumble beesD
Saying 'O bees be this your homeM
For grief is on the seas '-
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He sate him lone in a coral grotL
At the flowing of the tideL
When ebbed the billow there was notL
Save coral aught besideL
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So hairy apes in three white bedsD
And nightcaps one and nineB
On moonlit pillows lay three headsD
Bemused with dwarfish wineB
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A tomb of coral the dirge of beeK
The grey apes' guttural groanB
For Alliolyle for LallerieK
For thee O MuziomoneB

Walter De La Mare



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