The Fairy Queen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDDDEE FGHHII DDDDJK DDDDLL IIDDII MINNDD IIOOBP| Come follow follow me | A |
| You fairy elves that be | A |
| Which circle on the green | B |
| Come follow Mab your queen | B |
| Hand in hand let's dance around | C |
| For this place is fairy ground | C |
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| When mortals are at rest | D |
| And snoring in their nest | D |
| Unheard and unespied | D |
| Through keyholes we do glide | D |
| Over tables stools and shelves | E |
| We trip it with our fairy elves | E |
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| And if the house be foul | F |
| With platter dish or bowl | G |
| Upstairs we nimbly creep | H |
| And find the sluts asleep | H |
| There we pinch their arms and thighs | I |
| None escapes nor none espies | I |
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| But if the house be swept | D |
| And from uncleanness kept | D |
| We praise the household maid | D |
| And duly she is paid | D |
| For we use before we go | J |
| To drop a tester in her shoe | K |
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| Upon a mushroom's head | D |
| Our tablecloth we spread | D |
| A grain of rye or wheat | D |
| Is manchet which we eat | D |
| Pearly drops of dew we drink | L |
| In acorn cups fil'd to the brink | L |
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| The brains of nightingales | I |
| With unctuous fat of snails | I |
| Between two cockles stew'd | D |
| Is meat that's easily chew'd | D |
| Tails of worms and marrow of mice | I |
| Do make a dish that's wondrous nice | I |
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| The grasshopper gnat and fly | M |
| Serve us for our minstrelsy | I |
| Grace said we dance a while | N |
| And so the time beguile | N |
| And if the moon doth hide her head | D |
| The glow worm lights us home to bed | D |
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| On tops of dewy grass | I |
| So nimbly do we pass | I |
| The young and tender stalk | O |
| Ne'er bends when we do walk | O |
| Yet in the morning may be seen | B |
| Where we the night before have been | P |
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