At Fontainebleau Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFEG HIHI IJIJ KLKM HIHI| It was a day of sun and rain | A |
| Uncertain as a child's swift moods | B |
| And I shall never spend again | C |
| So blithe a day among the woods | D |
| - | |
| Was it because the Gods were pleased | E |
| That they were awful in our eyes | F |
| Whom we in very deed appeased | E |
| With barley cakes of sacrifice | G |
| - | |
| The forest knew her and was glad | H |
| And laughed for very joy to know | I |
| Her child was with her then grown sad | H |
| She wept because her child must go | I |
| - | |
| And Alice like a little Faun | I |
| Went leaping over rocks and ferns | J |
| Coursing the shadow race from dawn | I |
| Until the twilight flock returns | J |
| - | |
| And she would spy and she would capture | K |
| The shyest flower that lit the grass | L |
| The joy I had to watch her rapture | K |
| Was keen as even her rapture was | M |
| - | |
| The forest knew her and was glad | H |
| And laughed and wept for joy and woe | I |
| This was the welcome that she had | H |
| Among the woods of Fontainebleau | I |
Arthur Symons
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