A Fairy Tale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKDLMNONPQO RSTUVWXY ZA2B2C2D2AE2F2G2H2A2 F2I2J2RF2K2L2K2F2F2On winter nights beside the nursery fire | A |
We read the fairy tale while glowing coals | B |
Builded its pictures There before our eyes | C |
We saw the vaulted hall of traceried stone | D |
Uprear itself the distant ceiling hung | E |
With pendent stalactites like frozen vines | F |
And all along the walls at intervals | G |
Curled upwards into pillars roses climbed | H |
And ramped and were confined and clustered leaves | I |
Divided where there peered a laughing face | J |
The foliage seemed to rustle in the wind | K |
A silent murmur carved in still gray stone | D |
High pointed windows pierced the southern wall | L |
Whence proud escutcheons flung prismatic fires | M |
To stain the tessellated marble floor | N |
With pools of red and quivering green and blue | O |
And in the shade beyond the further door | N |
Its sober squares of black and white were hid | P |
Beneath a restless shuffling wide eyed mob | Q |
Of lackeys and retainers come to view | O |
The Christening | R |
A sudden blare of trumpets and the throng | S |
About the entrance parted as the guests | T |
Filed singly in with rare and precious gifts | U |
Our eager fancies noted all they brought | V |
The glorious unattainable delights | W |
But always there was one unbidden guest | X |
Who cursed the child and left it bitterness | Y |
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The fire falls asunder all is changed | Z |
I am no more a child and what I see | A2 |
Is not a fairy tale but life my life | B2 |
The gifts are there the many pleasant things | C2 |
Health wealth long settled friendships with a name | D2 |
Which honors all who bear it and the power | A |
Of making words obedient This is much | E2 |
But overshadowing all is still the curse | F2 |
That never shall I be fulfilled by love | G2 |
Along the parching highroad of the world | H2 |
No other soul shall bear mine company | A2 |
Always shall I be teased with semblances | F2 |
With cruel impostures which I trust awhile | I2 |
Then dash to pieces as a careless boy | J2 |
Flings a kaleidoscope which shattering | R |
Strews all the ground about with coloured sherds | F2 |
So I behold my visions on the ground | K2 |
No longer radiant an ignoble heap | L2 |
Of broken dusty glass And so unlit | K2 |
Even by hope or faith my dragging steps | F2 |
Force me forever through the passing days | F2 |
Amy Lowell
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