The Fairy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIHH JKFJ| Said Ann to Matilda 'I wish that we knew | A |
| If what we've been reading of fairies be true | A |
| Do you think that the poet himself had a sight of | B |
| The fairies he here does so prettily write of | B |
| O what a sweet sight if he really had seen | C |
| The graceful Titania the Fairy land Queen | C |
| If I had such dreams I would sleep a whole year | D |
| I would not wish to wake while a fairy was near | D |
| Now I'll fancy that I in my sleep have been seeing | E |
| A fine little delicate lady like being | E |
| Whose steps and whose motions so light were and airy | F |
| I knew at one glance that she must be a fairy | F |
| Her eyes they were blue and her fine curling hair | G |
| Of the lightest of browns her complexion more fair | G |
| Than I e'er saw a woman's and then for her height | H |
| I verily think that she measured not quite | H |
| Two feet yet so justly proportioned withal | I |
| I was almost persuaded to think she was tall | I |
| Her voice was the little thin note of a sprite | H |
| There d'ye think I have made out a fairy aright | H |
| You'll confess I believe I've not done it amiss ' | J |
| 'Pardon me ' said Matilda 'I find in all this | K |
| Fine description you've only your young sister Mary | F |
| Been taking a copy of here for a fairy ' | J |
Charles Lamb
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