Disenchanted Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
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Alas I thought this forest must be true | B |
And would not change because of my changed eyes | C |
I thought the growing things were as I knew | B |
And not a mock I thought at least the skies | C |
Were honest and would keep that happy blue | B |
They used to wear before I learned to see | D |
But woe the day | E |
Lo I have wandered forth and thought to stay | E |
Here where some gladness still might be for me | D |
Where some delight | F |
Should still break on my now too faithful sight | F |
And lo not even here may I go free | D |
Oh hateful knowledge pass and let me be | D |
Why am I made thy slave why am I wise | C |
Who once beheld all life with glamoured eyes | C |
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Ah woe the day this bleak and shrivelled wood | G |
These rotted leaves and all the wild flowers dead | H |
And here the ferns lie bruised and brown that stood | G |
My tall green shelter and above my head | H |
The naked creaking branches show the sky | I |
Athwart their lattice one murk sunless grey | E |
Ah woe the day | E |
I see and beauty has all passed away | E |
Woe for my desolate wisdom woe Ah why | I |
Must the sweet spell be broken ere I die | I |
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Dear glad tongued lark come down and talk with me | D |
Tell me oh tell me hast thou caught maybe | D |
Some little word | J |
Some word from heaven to make the meaning plain | K |
Of this great change or change me back again | L |
And chattering sparrow from the eaves come here | M |
And tell me thou who seest men so near | N |
Canst thou have heard | J |
Some talk among them out of all their lore | O |
To teach me who have learned to see as they | E |
To be like them still more | O |
And smile at hateful things or pass them o'er | P |
Sky bird and house bird do you know the way | E |
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Come hither let me tell you all my woe | Q |
Have you not known me in my carelessness | R |
I was that joyous child not long ago | Q |
The fairies hid away from life's distress | S |
And eager weariness of burdened men | L |
To live their darling in the elfin glen | L |
I was that thing of mirth and fantasies | T |
More antic than young squirrels at their play | E |
More wilful wanton than coy butterflies | C |
Teasing the flowers with make believes to kiss | U |
More happy than the early thrush whose lay | E |
Awakes the woodlands with spring melodies | T |
And sings the year to summer with his bliss | U |
And now I am so sad | V |
For listen I am wise my eyes see truth | W |
And nothing wears the brightness that it had | V |
Nothing is fair or glad | V |
All joy and grace were dreams dead with my fairy youth | W |
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Ah had you seen our home | X |
For the great hall one amethyst clear dome | X |
Fretted with silver or who could say which | Y |
With white pure moonbeams and the floors made rich | Y |
With patens of all rare translucent gems | Z |
And musky flower buds bending down their stems | Z |
For weight of diamonds that hung like dews | A2 |
And everywhere the radiance of carved gold | B2 |
And pearls' soft shimmer and quick various hues | A2 |
Of mystic opals glinting manifold | B2 |
And everywhere the music and the gleams | C2 |
Of clear cool water's sparkling iris beams | C2 |
In emerald and crystal fountains wrought | D2 |
Like river lilies with their buds and leaves | E2 |
Or as late briar shoots caught | F2 |
In the first glittering rime webs blithe October weaves | E2 |
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Ah me so fair so bright | F |
Had you but seen But lo the other night | F |
I was alone and watching how the sky | I |
Made a new star each moment and grew dim | G2 |
And singing to the moon when he came by | I |
The wise weird man what need had I of him | G2 |
The wise weird man who can see fairy folk | H2 |
And break all spells he saw me and he spoke | H2 |
'Poor changeling child | I2 |
How is thy heart beguiled | I2 |
And thy blind eyes made foolish with false sight | F |
Let the spell end be wise and see aright ' | - |
Then with a frozen salve that brought sharp tears | J2 |
Signed both my eyes and went And from that hour | P |
I am made weary with the cruel dower | K2 |
Of sight for evil For mine eyes before | O |
Made beauty where they looked and saw no more | O |
Ah happy eyes Ah sweet blind cheated years | L2 |
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Alas the glories of our fairy halls | M2 |
Alas the blossoms and the gems and gold | B2 |
Dreams dreams and lies | C |
Broken and clammy are the earthen walls | M2 |
The mildew is their silvering where of old | B2 |
The jewels shimmered shimmers moist and cold | B2 |
The dew of oozing damps and for the dyes | C |
And the fair shapes of diamond laden flowers | N2 |
Foul toadstool growths that never saw the skies | C |
And for the fountains pools and for the bowers | N2 |
Blank caves Nought nought in its old gracious guise | C |
And what is left for beauty is a mock | O2 |
Spangles and gilt and glass for precious things | P2 |
Bedraggled tinsel gauzes to enfrock | O2 |
Unlovely nakedness of earth and rock | O2 |
And painted images and cozenings | P2 |
Ah me ah me the beauty the delight | F |
Dreams dreams and lies | P2 |
Ah me and a curse more has come with sight | F |
There is no sweetness left me for my ears | P2 |
For when they sing the fairy melodies | P2 |
Like voice of laughters and like voice of sighs | P2 |
And voice of running brooks and voice of birds | P2 |
And voice of lovers' wooing and the words | P2 |
Are those that fill the heart of each who hears | P2 |
I hate the song for I hear all the while | Q2 |
'Dreams dreams and lies ' | - |
Yea and I see no loving in a smile | Q2 |
For when they soothe me tenderly and praise | P2 |
And speak the soft words of the former days | P2 |
My heart is cold and wise as are mine eyes | P2 |
And I grow sick of pleasant flatteries | P2 |
And talk of bliss and ancient merry ways | P2 |
For lo the hollow old content was vain How shall it live again | L |
Dreams dreams and lies | P2 |
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And even here is change For not till now | R2 |
Have I seen barrenness and leaves lie dank | O2 |
For me the leaf was green upon the bough | R2 |
The livelong year my tall ferns never sank | O2 |
Some sweet and tender blossom always grew | B |
The summer and the winter skies were blue | B |
And when the snow came in a winter freak | O2 |
To make the blossoms play me hide and seek | O2 |
I laughed because I knew that they were there | S2 |
Ah woe is me | D |
I said 'I will steal forth and make my lair | S2 |
Like some strayed foxcub in the sheltered wood | G |
For that will be as it was wont to be | D |
And I will live among the careless birds | P2 |
And happy forest beasts and insect herds | P2 |
Who in blithe wanderings find their easy food | T2 |
And feed and sport and rest in ceaseless glee | D |
Having their world all real and all fair ' | - |
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Alas for it was falseness even here | M |
The beauty has gone by it was my dream | U2 |
And all the black and dripping trees lie bare | S2 |
Soddening in fog and in dull mists that steam | U2 |
From the unwholesome barren earth and where | S2 |
The dead leaves fester that were born this year | N |
Ah me I am grown wise my sight is clear | N |
And to see clear is weeping wisdom is despair | S2 |
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Kind birds oh tell me whither shall I hie | V2 |
Dear lark hast thou looked down out of thy sky | O2 |
On the sweet quiet of some summer land | W2 |
Where truth and beauty yet go hand in hand | W2 |
Nay but would'st thou be here | M |
Tell me half human sparrow hast thou seen | X2 |
Among the homes of men where thine has been | Y2 |
A home where I might be among my kind | Z2 |
And love it and love them not being blind | Z2 |
Tell me draw near | N |
Oh answer me for now I learn desires | P2 |
For men's strong life to stir me and were fain | K |
To lose old dreams warm by their hearthside fires | P2 |
Yea and I must go though it all were pain | K |
The doom of my new'wisdom is on me | D |
Woe for my fairy youth Man among men | L |
I must go forth and suffer for I see | D |
Woe for the blind days in the happy glen | L |
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And the lark answered 'Nay I am not wise | P2 |
I can teach nought Only the other day | E |
I heard them singing who sing in the skies | P2 |
And ceaselessly I whisper low that lay | E |
To sing it when the summer comes again | L |
'In the world are Love and Pain | K |
Foes yet lovers they remain | K |
Pain strengthens Love till Love slay Pain '' | - |
The sparrow said 'I could not hear thee plain | K |
For I was chirruping the merry rhyme | A3 |
I heard men sing last night at supper time | A3 |
'Reap the grain and sow the grain | K |
To grow by sunshine and by rain '' | - |
Then the sad fairies' foster child arose | P2 |
And saw the grey day darkening to its close | P2 |
And passed ou | B |
Augusta Davies Webster
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