The Ogre Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JKJK LMLM NOPQ RSRS TTTT UVUV WSWX WXW YSYS ZXZ JLA2X OSB2S| 'Tis moonlight on Trebarwith Vale | A |
| And moonlight on an Ogre keen | B |
| Who prowling hungry through the dale | A |
| A lone cottage hath seen | B |
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| Small with thin smoke ascending up | C |
| Three casements and a door | D |
| The Ogre eager is to sup | C |
| And here seems dainty store | D |
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| Sweet as a larder to a mouse | E |
| So to him staring down | F |
| Seemed the sweet windowed moonlit house | E |
| With jasmine overgrown | G |
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| He snorted as the billows snort | H |
| In darkness of the night | I |
| Betwixt his lean locks tawny swart | H |
| He glowered on the sight | I |
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| Into the garden sweet with peas | J |
| He put his wooden shoe | K |
| And bending back the apple trees | J |
| Crept covetously through | K |
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| Then stooping with an impious eye | L |
| Stared through the lattice small | M |
| And spied two children which did lie | L |
| Asleep against the wall | M |
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| Into their dreams no shadow fell | N |
| Of his disastrous thumb | O |
| Groping discreet and gradual | P |
| Across the quiet room | Q |
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| But scarce his nail had scraped the cot | R |
| Wherein these children lay | S |
| As if his malice were forgot | R |
| It suddenly did stay | S |
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| For faintly in the ingle nook | T |
| He heard a cradlesong | T |
| That rose into his thoughts and woke | T |
| Terror them among | T |
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| For she who in the kitchen sat | U |
| Darning by the fire | V |
| Guileless of what he would be at | U |
| Sang sweet as wind or wire | V |
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| 'Lullay thou little tiny child | W |
| By by lullay lullie | S |
| Jesu of glory meek and mild | W |
| This night remember ye | X |
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| 'Fiend witch and goblin foul and wild | W |
| He deems 'em smoke to be | X |
| Lullay thou little tiny child | W |
| By by lullay lullie ' | - |
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| The Ogre lifted up his eyes | Y |
| Into the moon's pale ray | S |
| And gazed upon her leopard wise | Y |
| Cruel and clear as day | S |
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| He snarled in gluttony and fear | Z |
| 'The wind blows dismally | X |
| Jesu in storm my lambs be near | Z |
| By by lullay lullie ' | - |
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| And like a ravenous beast which sees | J |
| The hunter's icy eye | L |
| So did this wretch in wrath confess | A2 |
| Sweet Jesu's mastery | X |
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| He lightly drew his greedy thumb | O |
| From out that casement pale | S |
| And strode enormous swiftly home | B2 |
| Whinnying down the dale | S |
Walter De La Mare
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