In Ercildoune Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFGGHHIIJJIIKK KKGGLLMM NOPPQQ RRSSMM

In light of sunrise and sunsettingA
The long days lingered in forgettingA
That ever passion keen to holdB
What may not tarry was of oldB
Beyond the doubtful stream whose floodC
Runs red waist high with slain men's bloodC
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Was beauty once a thing that diedD
Was pleasure never satisfiedD
Was rest still broken by the vainE
Desire of action bringing painE
To die in vapid rest againF
All this was quite forgotten thereG
No winter brought us cold and careG
Nor spring gave promise unfulfilledH
Nor with the heavy summer killedH
The languid days droop autumnwardsI
So magical a season guardsI
The constant prime of a green JuneJ
So slumbrous is the river's tuneJ
That knows no thunder of rushing rainsI
Nor ever in the summer wanesI
Like waters of the summer timeK
In lands far from the fairy climeK
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Alas no words can bring the bloomK
Of Fairyland the lost perfumeK
The sweet low light the magic airG
To minds of who have not been thereG
Alas no words nor any spellL
Can lull the heart that knows too wellL
The towers that by the river standM
The lost fair world of FairylandM
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Ah would that I had never beenN
The lover of the Fairy QueenO
Or would that I again might beP
Asleep below the Eildon TreeP
And see her ride the forest wayQ
As on that morning of the MayQ
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Or would that through the little townR
The grey old place of ErcildouneR
And all along the sleepy streetS
The soft fall of the white deer's feetS
Came with the mystical commandM
That I must back to Fairy LandM

Andrew Lang



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