The Water-witch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB BDED FGHG IJKJ LMFM NOLO PGFQ RSTS| The little creek went winding down | A |
| Twixt whispering reeds and small blue flowers | B |
| Singing a pleasant summer song | C |
| Of holidays and playtime hours | B |
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| We reached it at the noonday hours | B |
| Coming from the scrub aisles dime and cool | D |
| Laden with ferns and lilies white | E |
| And rested by it s deepest pool | D |
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| And while we watched with drowsy eyes | F |
| The shimmering sunlight on the plain | G |
| The water witch within the stream | H |
| Arose and stood between us twain | G |
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| She looked on me with scornful eye | I |
| And mocking smile that held no mirth | J |
| She knew my simple soul was kin | K |
| To the brown kindly homely earth | J |
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| But she kissed Maye upon the brow | L |
| As though to steal her soul away | M |
| She kissed here on her Irish eyes | F |
| Her faery eyes now green now grey | M |
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| And now she walks alone our girl | N |
| Aloof from all life s joys and pains | O |
| The witch s kiss is on her brow | L |
| The dancing water in her veins | O |
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| Ah For the hearts that cherish her | P |
| That sigh and pine with secret pain | G |
| For her cool lips and smiling eyes | F |
| For Maye will never love again | Q |
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| Shallow and cold as water s self | R |
| And my warm heart that loves her well | S |
| Can only breathe a prayer to Heaven | T |
| To break the water witch s spell | S |
Alice Guerin Crist
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