The Changeling Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABACADAD AEAEFGFG AHAHEIEIIJJJEEEEE IIKKLLEEMMNNOONEEKKN NPP AGAGIEEIEKQNKQEJEER

Toll no bell for me dear Father dear MotherA
Waste no sighsB
There are my sisters there is my little brotherA
Who plays in the place called ParadiseC
Your children all your children for everA
But I so wildD
Your disgrace with the queer brown face was neverA
Never I know but half your childD
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In the garden at play all day last summerA
Far and away I heardE
The sweet tweet tweet of a strange new comerA
The dearest clearest call of a birdE
It lived down there in the deep green hollowF
My own old home and the fairies sayG
The word of a bird is a thing to followF
So I was away a night and a dayG
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One evening too by the nursery fireA
We snuggled close and sat roudn so stillH
When suddenly as the wind blew higherA
Something scratched on the window sillH
A pinched brown face peered in I shiveredE
No one listened or seemed to seeI
The arms of it waved and the wings of it quiveredE
Whoo I knew it had come for meI
Some are as bad as bad can beI
All night long they danced in the rainJ
Round and round in a dripping chainJ
Threw their caps at the window paneJ
Tried to make me scream and shoutE
And fling the bedclothes all aboutE
I meant to stay in bed that nightE
And if only you had left a lightE
They would never have got me outE
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Sometimes I wouldn't speak you seeI
Or answer when you spoke to meI
Because in the long still dusks of SpringK
You can hear the whole world whisperingK
The shy green grasses making loveL
The feathers grow on the dear grey doveL
The tiny heart of the redstart beatE
The patter of the squirrel's feetE
The pebbles pushing in the silver streamsM
The rushes talking in their dreamsM
The swish swish of the bat's black wingsN
The wild wood bluebell's sweet ting tingsN
Humming and hammering at your earO
Everything there is to hearO
In the heart of hidden thingsN
But not in the midst of the nursery riotE
That's why I wanted to be quietE
Couldn't do my sums or singK
Or settle down to anythingK
And when for that I was sent upstairsN
I did kneel down to say my prayersN
But the King who sits on your high church steepleP
Has nothing to do with us fairy peopleP
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'Times I pleased you dear Father dear MotherA
Learned all my lessons and liked to playG
And dearly I loved the little pale brotherA
Whom some other bird must have called awayG
Why did they bring me here to make meI
Not quite bad and not quite goodE
Why unless They're wicked do They want in spiteE
to take meI
Back to Their wet wild woodE
Now every nithing I shall see the windows shiningK
The gold lamp's glow and the fire's red gleamQ
While the best of us are twining twigs and the rest of usN
are whiningK
In the hollow by the streamQ
Black and chill are Their nights on the woldE
And They live so long and They feel no painJ
I shall grow up but never grow oldE
I shall always always be very coldE
I shall never come back againR

Charlotte Mary Mew



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