A Fairy Tale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKDLMNONPQO RSTUVWXY ZA2B2C2D2AE2F2G2H2A2 F2I2J2RF2K2L2K2F2F2

On winter nights beside the nursery fireA
We read the fairy tale while glowing coalsB
Builded its pictures There before our eyesC
We saw the vaulted hall of traceried stoneD
Uprear itself the distant ceiling hungE
With pendent stalactites like frozen vinesF
And all along the walls at intervalsG
Curled upwards into pillars roses climbedH
And ramped and were confined and clustered leavesI
Divided where there peered a laughing faceJ
The foliage seemed to rustle in the windK
A silent murmur carved in still gray stoneD
High pointed windows pierced the southern wallL
Whence proud escutcheons flung prismatic firesM
To stain the tessellated marble floorN
With pools of red and quivering green and blueO
And in the shade beyond the further doorN
Its sober squares of black and white were hidP
Beneath a restless shuffling wide eyed mobQ
Of lackeys and retainers come to viewO
The ChristeningR
A sudden blare of trumpets and the throngS
About the entrance parted as the guestsT
Filed singly in with rare and precious giftsU
Our eager fancies noted all they broughtV
The glorious unattainable delightsW
But always there was one unbidden guestX
Who cursed the child and left it bitternessY
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The fire falls asunder all is changedZ
I am no more a child and what I seeA2
Is not a fairy tale but life my lifeB2
The gifts are there the many pleasant thingsC2
Health wealth long settled friendships with a nameD2
Which honors all who bear it and the powerA
Of making words obedient This is muchE2
But overshadowing all is still the curseF2
That never shall I be fulfilled by loveG2
Along the parching highroad of the worldH2
No other soul shall bear mine companyA2
Always shall I be teased with semblancesF2
With cruel impostures which I trust awhileI2
Then dash to pieces as a careless boyJ2
Flings a kaleidoscope which shatteringR
Strews all the ground about with coloured sherdsF2
So I behold my visions on the groundK2
No longer radiant an ignoble heapL2
Of broken dusty glass And so unlitK2
Even by hope or faith my dragging stepsF2
Force me forever through the passing daysF2

Amy Lowell



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