The Tailor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFFGGHHIJKLMM| Few footsteps stray when dusk droops o'er | A |
| The tailor's old stone lintelled door | B |
| There sits he stitching half asleep | C |
| Beside his smoky tallow dip | D |
| 'Click click ' his needle hastes and shrill | E |
| Cries back the cricket 'neath the sill | E |
| Sometimes he stays and o'er his thread | F |
| Leans sidelong his old tousled head | F |
| Or stoops to peer with half shut eye | G |
| When some strange footfall echoes by | G |
| Till clearer gleams his candle's spark | H |
| Into the dusty summer dark | H |
| Then from his crosslegs he gets down | I |
| To find how dark the evening's grown | J |
| And hunched up in his door he'll hear | K |
| The cricket whistling crisp and clear | L |
| And so beneath the starry grey | M |
| Will mutter half a seam away | M |
Walter De La Mare
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