Fancy's Fool Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB AB ACAD EFEF GHGH AIAJ AKAK AGAG AAAA ALAL MINI OCOC APAP| Cornel cornel green and white | A |
| Spreading on the forest floor | B |
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| Whither went my lost delight | A |
| Through the silent door | B |
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| Mortal mortal overfond | A |
| How come you at all to know | C |
| There be any joys beyond | A |
| Blisses here and now | D |
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| Cornel cornel white and cool | E |
| Many a mortal I've heard tell | F |
| Who is only Fancy's fool | E |
| Knows that secret well | F |
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| Mortal mortal what would you | G |
| With that beauty once was yours | H |
| Perishable is the dew | G |
| And the dust endures | H |
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| Cornel cornel pierce me not | A |
| With your sweet reserved disdain | I |
| Whisper me of things forgot | A |
| That shall be again | J |
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| Mortal we are kinsmen led | A |
| By a hope beyond our reach | K |
| Know you not the word unsaid | A |
| Is the flower of speech | K |
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| All the snowy blossoms faded | A |
| While the scarlet berries grew | G |
| And all summer they evaded | A |
| Anything they knew | G |
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| Cornel cornel green and red | A |
| Flooring for the forest wide | A |
| Whither down the ways of dread | A |
| Went my starry eyed | A |
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| Mortal mortal is there found | A |
| Any fruitage half so fair | L |
| In the dim world underground | A |
| As there grows in air | L |
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| Wilding cornel you can guess | M |
| Nothing of eternal pain | I |
| Growing there in quietness | N |
| In the sun and rain | I |
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| Mortal where your heart would be | O |
| Not a wanderer may go | C |
| But he shares the dark with me | O |
| Underneath the snow | C |
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| And the scarlet berries scattered | A |
| With the coming on of fall | P |
| Not to one of them it mattered | A |
| Anything at all | P |
Bliss Carman
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