A Fairy Tale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKDLMNONPQO RSTUVWXY ZA2B2C2D2AE2F2G2H2A2 F2I2J2RF2K2L2K2F2F2| On 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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