The Changeling Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACADAD AEAEFGFG AHAHEIEIIJJJEEEEE IIKKLLEEMMNNOONEEKKN NPP AGAGIEEIEKQNKQEJEERToll no bell for me dear Father dear Mother | A |
Waste no sighs | B |
There are my sisters there is my little brother | A |
Who plays in the place called Paradise | C |
Your children all your children for ever | A |
But I so wild | D |
Your disgrace with the queer brown face was never | A |
Never I know but half your child | D |
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In the garden at play all day last summer | A |
Far and away I heard | E |
The sweet tweet tweet of a strange new comer | A |
The dearest clearest call of a bird | E |
It lived down there in the deep green hollow | F |
My own old home and the fairies say | G |
The word of a bird is a thing to follow | F |
So I was away a night and a day | G |
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One evening too by the nursery fire | A |
We snuggled close and sat roudn so still | H |
When suddenly as the wind blew higher | A |
Something scratched on the window sill | H |
A pinched brown face peered in I shivered | E |
No one listened or seemed to see | I |
The arms of it waved and the wings of it quivered | E |
Whoo I knew it had come for me | I |
Some are as bad as bad can be | I |
All night long they danced in the rain | J |
Round and round in a dripping chain | J |
Threw their caps at the window pane | J |
Tried to make me scream and shout | E |
And fling the bedclothes all about | E |
I meant to stay in bed that night | E |
And if only you had left a light | E |
They would never have got me out | E |
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Sometimes I wouldn't speak you see | I |
Or answer when you spoke to me | I |
Because in the long still dusks of Spring | K |
You can hear the whole world whispering | K |
The shy green grasses making love | L |
The feathers grow on the dear grey dove | L |
The tiny heart of the redstart beat | E |
The patter of the squirrel's feet | E |
The pebbles pushing in the silver streams | M |
The rushes talking in their dreams | M |
The swish swish of the bat's black wings | N |
The wild wood bluebell's sweet ting tings | N |
Humming and hammering at your ear | O |
Everything there is to hear | O |
In the heart of hidden things | N |
But not in the midst of the nursery riot | E |
That's why I wanted to be quiet | E |
Couldn't do my sums or sing | K |
Or settle down to anything | K |
And when for that I was sent upstairs | N |
I did kneel down to say my prayers | N |
But the King who sits on your high church steeple | P |
Has nothing to do with us fairy people | P |
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'Times I pleased you dear Father dear Mother | A |
Learned all my lessons and liked to play | G |
And dearly I loved the little pale brother | A |
Whom some other bird must have called away | G |
Why did they bring me here to make me | I |
Not quite bad and not quite good | E |
Why unless They're wicked do They want in spite | E |
to take me | I |
Back to Their wet wild wood | E |
Now every nithing I shall see the windows shining | K |
The gold lamp's glow and the fire's red gleam | Q |
While the best of us are twining twigs and the rest of us | N |
are whining | K |
In the hollow by the stream | Q |
Black and chill are Their nights on the wold | E |
And They live so long and They feel no pain | J |
I shall grow up but never grow old | E |
I shall always always be very cold | E |
I shall never come back again | R |
Charlotte Mary Mew
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