Interlude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD DEFG HIDJ KCEJ LDDM NG O| O the fun the fun and frolic | A |
| That The Wind that Shakes the Barley | B |
| Scatters through a penny whistle | C |
| Tickled with artistic fingers | D |
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| Kate the scrubber forty summers | D |
| Stout but sportive treads a measure | E |
| Grinning in herself a ballet | F |
| Fixed as fate upon her audience | G |
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| Stumps are shaking crutch supported | H |
| Splinted fingers tap the rhythm | I |
| And a head all helmed with plasters | D |
| Wags a measured approbation | J |
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| Of their mattress life oblivious | K |
| All the patients brisk and cheerful | C |
| Are encouraging the dancer | E |
| And applauding the musician | J |
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| Dim the gas lights in the output | L |
| Of so many ardent smokers | D |
| Full of shadow lurch the corners | D |
| And the doctor peeps and passes | M |
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| There are maybe some suspicions | N |
| Of an alcoholic presence | G |
| 'Tak' a sup of this my wumman ' | - |
| New Year comes but once a twelvemonth | O |
William Ernest Henley
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