Cross-stanza Sonorities
Walter de la Mare. Peacock Pie "The Cupboard"
I love the suggestiveness of rhyming "me" with "key". And I particularly am thrilled by how the rhyme is carried over the stanzas.
I know a little cupboard,And thanks to the rhyme the image of the grandmamma as fat and small recedes with the prominence of the "very slippery knee".
With a teeny tiny key,
And there's a jar of Lollypops
For me, me, me.
[…]
I have a small fat grandmamma,
With a very slippery knee,
And she's Keeper of the Cupboard,
With the key, key, key.
And so for day 1901
26.02.2012