In Ercildoune Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFGGHHIIJJIIKK KKGGLLMM NOPPQQ RRSSMMIn light of sunrise and sunsetting | A |
The long days lingered in forgetting | A |
That ever passion keen to hold | B |
What may not tarry was of old | B |
Beyond the doubtful stream whose flood | C |
Runs red waist high with slain men's blood | C |
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Was beauty once a thing that died | D |
Was pleasure never satisfied | D |
Was rest still broken by the vain | E |
Desire of action bringing pain | E |
To die in vapid rest again | F |
All this was quite forgotten there | G |
No winter brought us cold and care | G |
Nor spring gave promise unfulfilled | H |
Nor with the heavy summer killed | H |
The languid days droop autumnwards | I |
So magical a season guards | I |
The constant prime of a green June | J |
So slumbrous is the river's tune | J |
That knows no thunder of rushing rains | I |
Nor ever in the summer wanes | I |
Like waters of the summer time | K |
In lands far from the fairy clime | K |
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Alas no words can bring the bloom | K |
Of Fairyland the lost perfume | K |
The sweet low light the magic air | G |
To minds of who have not been there | G |
Alas no words nor any spell | L |
Can lull the heart that knows too well | L |
The towers that by the river stand | M |
The lost fair world of Fairyland | M |
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Ah would that I had never been | N |
The lover of the Fairy Queen | O |
Or would that I again might be | P |
Asleep below the Eildon Tree | P |
And see her ride the forest way | Q |
As on that morning of the May | Q |
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Or would that through the little town | R |
The grey old place of Ercildoune | R |
And all along the sleepy street | S |
The soft fall of the white deer's feet | S |
Came with the mystical command | M |
That I must back to Fairy Land | M |
Andrew Lang
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