Walter De La Mare

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The Keys Of Morning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGDHDICJCKLML MNOP QRSRTOCOUVWVXYZY

While at her bedroom window onceA
Learning her task for schoolB
Little Louisa lonely satC
In the morning clear and coolB
She slanted her small bead brown eyesD
Across the empty streetE
And saw Death softly watching herF
In the sunshine pale and sweetE
His was a long lean sallow faceG
He sat with half shut eyesD
Like an old sailor in a shipH
Becalmed 'neath tropic skiesD
Beside him in the dust he'd setI
His staff and shady hatC
These peeping small Louisa sawJ
Quite clearly where she satC
The thinness of his coal black locksK
His hands so long and leanL
They scarcely seemed to grasp at allM
The keys that hung betweenL
Both were of gold but one was smallM
And with this last did heN
Wag in the air as if to sayO
'Come hither child to me 'P
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Louisa laid her lesson bookQ
On the cold window sillR
And in the sleepy sunshine houseS
Went softly down untilR
She stood in the half opened doorT
And peeped but strange to sayO
Where Death just now had sunning satC
Only a shadow layO
Just the tall chimney's round topped cowlU
And the small sun behindV
Had with its shadow in the dustW
Called sleepy Death to mindV
But most she thought how strange it wasX
Two keys that he should bearY
And that when beckoning he should wagZ
The littlest in the airY

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