The Supper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBB DEFFGG HBIIBB JBKKBB LGMMG NEKKGG KKOOKK OKPPKKA wolf he pricks with eyes of fire | A |
Across the night's o'ercrusted snows | B |
Seeking his prey | C |
He pads his way | C |
Where Jane benighted goes | B |
Where Jane benighted goes | B |
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He curdles the bleak air with ire | D |
Ruffling his hoary raiment through | E |
And lo he sees | F |
Beneath the trees | F |
Where Jane's light footsteps go | G |
Where Jane's light footsteps go | G |
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No hound peals thus in wicked joy | H |
He snaps his muzzle in the snows | B |
His five clawed feet | I |
Do scamper fleet | I |
Where Jane's bright lanthorn shows | B |
Where Jane's bright lanthorn shows | B |
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Now his greed's green doth gaze unseen | J |
On a pure face of wilding rose | B |
Her amber eyes | K |
In fear's surprise | K |
Watch largely as she goes | B |
Watch largely as she goes | B |
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Salt wells his hunger in his jaws | L |
His lust it revels to and fro | G |
Yet small beneath | M |
A soft voice saith | M |
'Jane shall in safety go | G |
Jane shall in safety go ' | - |
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He lurched as if a fiery lash | N |
Had scourged his hide and through and through | E |
His furious eyes | K |
O'erscanned the skies | K |
But nearer dared not go | G |
But nearer dared not go | G |
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He reared like wild Bucephalus | K |
His fangs like spears in him uprose | K |
Ev'n to the town | O |
Jane's flitting gown | O |
He grins on as she goes | K |
He grins on as she goes | K |
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In fierce lament he howls amain | O |
He scampers marvelling in his throes | K |
What brought him there | P |
To sup on air | P |
While Jane unarm d goes | K |
While Jane unarm d goes | K |
Walter De La Mare
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