Disenchanted Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Alas I thought this forest must be trueB
And would not change because of my changed eyesC
I thought the growing things were as I knewB
And not a mock I thought at least the skiesC
Were honest and would keep that happy blueB
They used to wear before I learned to seeD
But woe the dayE
Lo I have wandered forth and thought to stayE
Here where some gladness still might be for meD
Where some delightF
Should still break on my now too faithful sightF
And lo not even here may I go freeD
Oh hateful knowledge pass and let me beD
Why am I made thy slave why am I wiseC
Who once beheld all life with glamoured eyesC
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Ah woe the day this bleak and shrivelled woodG
These rotted leaves and all the wild flowers deadH
And here the ferns lie bruised and brown that stoodG
My tall green shelter and above my headH
The naked creaking branches show the skyI
Athwart their lattice one murk sunless greyE
Ah woe the dayE
I see and beauty has all passed awayE
Woe for my desolate wisdom woe Ah whyI
Must the sweet spell be broken ere I dieI
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Dear glad tongued lark come down and talk with meD
Tell me oh tell me hast thou caught maybeD
Some little wordJ
Some word from heaven to make the meaning plainK
Of this great change or change me back againL
And chattering sparrow from the eaves come hereM
And tell me thou who seest men so nearN
Canst thou have heardJ
Some talk among them out of all their loreO
To teach me who have learned to see as theyE
To be like them still moreO
And smile at hateful things or pass them o'erP
Sky bird and house bird do you know the wayE
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Come hither let me tell you all my woeQ
Have you not known me in my carelessnessR
I was that joyous child not long agoQ
The fairies hid away from life's distressS
And eager weariness of burdened menL
To live their darling in the elfin glenL
I was that thing of mirth and fantasiesT
More antic than young squirrels at their playE
More wilful wanton than coy butterfliesC
Teasing the flowers with make believes to kissU
More happy than the early thrush whose layE
Awakes the woodlands with spring melodiesT
And sings the year to summer with his blissU
And now I am so sadV
For listen I am wise my eyes see truthW
And nothing wears the brightness that it hadV
Nothing is fair or gladV
All joy and grace were dreams dead with my fairy youthW
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Ah had you seen our homeX
For the great hall one amethyst clear domeX
Fretted with silver or who could say whichY
With white pure moonbeams and the floors made richY
With patens of all rare translucent gemsZ
And musky flower buds bending down their stemsZ
For weight of diamonds that hung like dewsA2
And everywhere the radiance of carved goldB2
And pearls' soft shimmer and quick various huesA2
Of mystic opals glinting manifoldB2
And everywhere the music and the gleamsC2
Of clear cool water's sparkling iris beamsC2
In emerald and crystal fountains wroughtD2
Like river lilies with their buds and leavesE2
Or as late briar shoots caughtF2
In the first glittering rime webs blithe October weavesE2
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Ah me so fair so brightF
Had you but seen But lo the other nightF
I was alone and watching how the skyI
Made a new star each moment and grew dimG2
And singing to the moon when he came byI
The wise weird man what need had I of himG2
The wise weird man who can see fairy folkH2
And break all spells he saw me and he spokeH2
'Poor changeling childI2
How is thy heart beguiledI2
And thy blind eyes made foolish with false sightF
Let the spell end be wise and see aright '-
Then with a frozen salve that brought sharp tearsJ2
Signed both my eyes and went And from that hourP
I am made weary with the cruel dowerK2
Of sight for evil For mine eyes beforeO
Made beauty where they looked and saw no moreO
Ah happy eyes Ah sweet blind cheated yearsL2
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Alas the glories of our fairy hallsM2
Alas the blossoms and the gems and goldB2
Dreams dreams and liesC
Broken and clammy are the earthen wallsM2
The mildew is their silvering where of oldB2
The jewels shimmered shimmers moist and coldB2
The dew of oozing damps and for the dyesC
And the fair shapes of diamond laden flowersN2
Foul toadstool growths that never saw the skiesC
And for the fountains pools and for the bowersN2
Blank caves Nought nought in its old gracious guiseC
And what is left for beauty is a mockO2
Spangles and gilt and glass for precious thingsP2
Bedraggled tinsel gauzes to enfrockO2
Unlovely nakedness of earth and rockO2
And painted images and cozeningsP2
Ah me ah me the beauty the delightF
Dreams dreams and liesP2
Ah me and a curse more has come with sightF
There is no sweetness left me for my earsP2
For when they sing the fairy melodiesP2
Like voice of laughters and like voice of sighsP2
And voice of running brooks and voice of birdsP2
And voice of lovers' wooing and the wordsP2
Are those that fill the heart of each who hearsP2
I hate the song for I hear all the whileQ2
'Dreams dreams and lies '-
Yea and I see no loving in a smileQ2
For when they soothe me tenderly and praiseP2
And speak the soft words of the former daysP2
My heart is cold and wise as are mine eyesP2
And I grow sick of pleasant flatteriesP2
And talk of bliss and ancient merry waysP2
For lo the hollow old content was vain How shall it live againL
Dreams dreams and liesP2
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And even here is change For not till nowR2
Have I seen barrenness and leaves lie dankO2
For me the leaf was green upon the boughR2
The livelong year my tall ferns never sankO2
Some sweet and tender blossom always grewB
The summer and the winter skies were blueB
And when the snow came in a winter freakO2
To make the blossoms play me hide and seekO2
I laughed because I knew that they were thereS2
Ah woe is meD
I said 'I will steal forth and make my lairS2
Like some strayed foxcub in the sheltered woodG
For that will be as it was wont to beD
And I will live among the careless birdsP2
And happy forest beasts and insect herdsP2
Who in blithe wanderings find their easy foodT2
And feed and sport and rest in ceaseless gleeD
Having their world all real and all fair '-
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Alas for it was falseness even hereM
The beauty has gone by it was my dreamU2
And all the black and dripping trees lie bareS2
Soddening in fog and in dull mists that steamU2
From the unwholesome barren earth and whereS2
The dead leaves fester that were born this yearN
Ah me I am grown wise my sight is clearN
And to see clear is weeping wisdom is despairS2
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Kind birds oh tell me whither shall I hieV2
Dear lark hast thou looked down out of thy skyO2
On the sweet quiet of some summer landW2
Where truth and beauty yet go hand in handW2
Nay but would'st thou be hereM
Tell me half human sparrow hast thou seenX2
Among the homes of men where thine has beenY2
A home where I might be among my kindZ2
And love it and love them not being blindZ2
Tell me draw nearN
Oh answer me for now I learn desiresP2
For men's strong life to stir me and were fainK
To lose old dreams warm by their hearthside firesP2
Yea and I must go though it all were painK
The doom of my new'wisdom is on meD
Woe for my fairy youth Man among menL
I must go forth and suffer for I seeD
Woe for the blind days in the happy glenL
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And the lark answered 'Nay I am not wiseP2
I can teach nought Only the other dayE
I heard them singing who sing in the skiesP2
And ceaselessly I whisper low that layE
To sing it when the summer comes againL
'In the world are Love and PainK
Foes yet lovers they remainK
Pain strengthens Love till Love slay Pain ''-
The sparrow said 'I could not hear thee plainK
For I was chirruping the merry rhymeA3
I heard men sing last night at supper timeA3
'Reap the grain and sow the grainK
To grow by sunshine and by rain ''-
Then the sad fairies' foster child aroseP2
And saw the grey day darkening to its closeP2
And passed ouB

Augusta Davies Webster



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