Ballade Of The Midnight Forest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCCDCD ABABBAADAD ABABBAADAD E AADAD

Still sing the mocking fairies as of oldA
Beneath the shade of thorn and holly treeB
The west wind breathes upon them pure and coldA
And wolves still dread Diana roaming freeB
In secret woodland with her companyB
'Tis thought the peasants' hovels know her riteC
When now the wolds are bathed in silver lightC
And first the moonrise breaks the dusky greyD
Then down the dells with blown soft hair and brightC
And through the dim wood Dian threads her wayD
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With water weeds twined in their locks of goldA
The strange cold forest fairies dance in gleeB
Sylphs over timorous and over boldA
Haunt the dark hollows where the dwarf may beB
The wild red dwarf the nixies' enemyB
Then 'mid their mirth and laughter and affrightA
The sudden Goddess enters tall and whiteA
With one long sigh for summers pass'd awayD
The swift feet tear the ivy nets outrightA
And through the dim wood Dian threads her wayD
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She gleans her silvan trophies down the woldA
She hears the sobbing of the stags that fleeB
Mixed with the music of the hunting roll'dA
But her delight is all in archeryB
And naught of ruth and pity wotteth sheB
More than her hounds that follow on the flightA
The goddess draws a golden bow of mightA
And thick she rains the gentle shafts that slayD
She tosses loose her locks upon the nightA
And through the dim wood Dian threads her wayD
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ENVOYE
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Prince let us leave the din the dust the spiteA
The gloom and glare of towns the plague the blightA
Amid the forest leaves and fountain sprayD
There is the mystic home of our delightA
And through the dim wood Dian threads her wayD

Andrew Lang



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