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 KBKBThree dwarfs there were which lived on an isle | A |
And the name of the isle was Lone | B |
And the names of the dwarfs were Alliolyle | A |
Lallerie Muziomone | B |
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Alliolyle was green of een | B |
Lallerie light of locks | C |
Muziomone was mild of mien | B |
As ewes in April flocks | C |
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Their house was small and sweet of the sea | D |
And pale as the Malmsey wine | B |
Their bowls were three and their beds were three | D |
And their nightcaps white were nine | B |
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Their beds were of the holly wood | E |
Their combs of the tortoiseshell | A |
Their mirrors clear as wintry flood | F |
Frozen dark and snell | A |
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So each would lie on his plumpy pillow | A |
The moon for company | D |
And hear the parrot scream to the billow | A |
And the billow roar reply | A |
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Sulphur parrots and parrots red | G |
Scarlet and flame and green | B |
And five foot apes that jargon d | D |
In feathery tufted treen | B |
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And oh or ever the dawning shed | G |
On dreams a narrow flame | H |
Three gaping dwarfs gat out of bed | G |
And gazed upon the same | H |
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At dawn they fished at noon they snared | I |
Young foxes in the dells | D |
At even on dew berries they fared | I |
And blew in their twisted shells | D |
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Dark was the sea they gambolled in | B |
And thick with silver fish | J |
Dark as green glass blown clear and thin | B |
To be a monarch's dish | J |
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They sate to sup in a jasmine bower | K |
Lit pale with flies of fire | K |
Their bowls the hue of the iris flower | K |
And lemon their attire | K |
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Sweet wine in little cups they sipped | L |
And golden honeycomb | M |
Into their bowls of cream they dipped | L |
Whipt light and white as foam | M |
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Alliolyle where the salt sea flows | D |
Taught three old apes to sing | N |
And there to the moon like a full blown rose | D |
They capered in a ring | N |
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But down to the shore skipped Lallerie | K |
His parrot on his thumb | O |
And the twain they scritched in mockery | K |
While the dancers go and come | O |
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So alas in the evening rosy and still | A |
Light haired Lallerie | K |
Bitterly quarrelled with Alliolyle | A |
By the yellow sanded sea | K |
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The rising moon swam sweet and large | P |
Before their furious eyes | D |
And they rolled and rolled to the coral marge | P |
Where the surf for ever cries | D |
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Too late too late comes Muziomone | B |
Clear in the clear green sea | K |
Alliolyle lies not alone | B |
But clasped with Lallerie | K |
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He blows on his shell plaintive notes | D |
Ape parraquito bee | K |
Flock where a shoe on the salt wave floats | D |
The shoe of Lallerie | K |
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He fetches nightcaps one and nine | B |
Grey apes he dowers three | K |
His house as fair as the Malmsey wine | B |
Seems sad as cypress tree | K |
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Three bowls he brims with honeycomb | M |
To feast the bumble bees | D |
Saying 'O bees be this your home | M |
For grief is on the seas ' | - |
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He sate him lone in a coral grot | L |
At the flowing of the tide | L |
When ebbed the billow there was not | L |
Save coral aught beside | L |
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So hairy apes in three white beds | D |
And nightcaps one and nine | B |
On moonlit pillows lay three heads | D |
Bemused with dwarfish wine | B |
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A tomb of coral the dirge of bee | K |
The grey apes' guttural groan | B |
For Alliolyle for Lallerie | K |
For thee O Muziomone | B |
Walter De La Mare
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