Interlude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD DEFG HIDJ KCEJ LDDM NG OO 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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