Ballade Of The Midnight Forest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCCDCD ABABBAADAD ABABBAADAD E AADADStill sing the mocking fairies as of old | A |
Beneath the shade of thorn and holly tree | B |
The west wind breathes upon them pure and cold | A |
And wolves still dread Diana roaming free | B |
In secret woodland with her company | B |
'Tis thought the peasants' hovels know her rite | C |
When now the wolds are bathed in silver light | C |
And first the moonrise breaks the dusky grey | D |
Then down the dells with blown soft hair and bright | C |
And through the dim wood Dian threads her way | D |
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With water weeds twined in their locks of gold | A |
The strange cold forest fairies dance in glee | B |
Sylphs over timorous and over bold | A |
Haunt the dark hollows where the dwarf may be | B |
The wild red dwarf the nixies' enemy | B |
Then 'mid their mirth and laughter and affright | A |
The sudden Goddess enters tall and white | A |
With one long sigh for summers pass'd away | D |
The swift feet tear the ivy nets outright | A |
And through the dim wood Dian threads her way | D |
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She gleans her silvan trophies down the wold | A |
She hears the sobbing of the stags that flee | B |
Mixed with the music of the hunting roll'd | A |
But her delight is all in archery | B |
And naught of ruth and pity wotteth she | B |
More than her hounds that follow on the flight | A |
The goddess draws a golden bow of might | A |
And thick she rains the gentle shafts that slay | D |
She tosses loose her locks upon the night | A |
And through the dim wood Dian threads her way | D |
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ENVOY | E |
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Prince let us leave the din the dust the spite | A |
The gloom and glare of towns the plague the blight | A |
Amid the forest leaves and fountain spray | D |
There is the mystic home of our delight | A |
And through the dim wood Dian threads her way | D |
Andrew Lang
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