The Supper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBB DEFFGG HBIIBB JBKKBB LGMMG NEKKGG KKOOKK OKPPKK| A 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 ' | - |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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