The Fairy's Gift Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEFGFG BHBHHIHIJBJBK KL| The Fays that to my christ'ning came | A |
| For come they did my nurses taught me | B |
| They did not bring me wealth or fame | A |
| 'Tis very little that they brought me | B |
| But one the crossest of the crew | C |
| The ugly old one uninvited | D |
| Said 'I shall be avenged on YOU | C |
| My child you shall grow up short sighted ' | E |
| With magic juices did she lave | F |
| Mine eyes and wrought her wicked pleasure | G |
| Well of all gifts the Fairies gave | F |
| HERS is the present that I treasure | G |
| - | |
| The bore whom others fear and flee | B |
| I do not fear I do not flee him | H |
| I pass him calm as calm can be | B |
| I do not cut I do not see him | H |
| And with my feeble eyes and dim | H |
| Where YOU see patchy fields and fences | I |
| For me the mists of Turner swim | H |
| MY 'azure distance' soon commences | I |
| Nay as I blink about the streets | J |
| Of this befogged and miry city | B |
| Why almost every girl one meets | J |
| Seems preternaturally pretty | B |
| 'Try spectacles ' one's friends intone | K |
| 'You'll see the world correctly through them ' | - |
| But I have visions of my own | K |
| And not for worlds would I undo them | L |
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