The Little Dell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKM NINIOPOP NQNQRSRS TUTUVWVW FNFNKRKR| Doleful was the land | A |
| Dull on every side | B |
| Neither soft n'or grand | A |
| Barren bleak and wide | B |
| Nothing look'd with love | C |
| All was dingy brown | D |
| The very skies above | C |
| Seem'd to sulk and frown | D |
| - | |
| Plodding sick and sad | E |
| Weary day on day | F |
| Searching never glad | E |
| Many a miry way | F |
| Poor existence lagg'd | G |
| In this barren place | H |
| While the seasons dragg'd | G |
| Slowly o'er its face | H |
| - | |
| Spring to sky and ground | I |
| Came before I guess'd | J |
| Then one day I found | I |
| A valley like a nest | J |
| Guarded with a spell | K |
| Sure it must have been | L |
| This little fairy dell | K |
| Which I had never seen | M |
| - | |
| Open to the blue | N |
| Green banks hemm'd it round | I |
| A rillet wander'd through | N |
| With a tinkling sound | I |
| Briars among the rocks | O |
| Tangled arbours made | P |
| Primroses in flocks | O |
| Grew beneath their shade | P |
| - | |
| Merry birds a few | N |
| Creatures wildly tame | Q |
| Perch'd and sung and flew | N |
| Timid field mice came | Q |
| Beetles in the moss | R |
| Journey'd here and there | S |
| Butterflies across | R |
| Danced through sunlit air | S |
| - | |
| There I often read | T |
| Sung alone or dream'd | U |
| Blossoms overhead | T |
| Where the west wind stream'd | U |
| Small horizon line | V |
| Smoothly lifted up | W |
| Held this world of mine | V |
| In a grassy cup | W |
| - | |
| The barren land to day | F |
| Hears my last adieu | N |
| Not an hour I stay | F |
| Earth is wide and new | N |
| Yet farewell farewell | K |
| May the sun and show'rs | R |
| Bless that Little Dell | K |
| Of safe and tranquil hours | R |
William Allingham
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