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The Gold-spinner. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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A miller had a daughter	A
And lovely too she was	B
Her step was light her smile was bright	C
Her eyes were gray as glass	D
So Chaucer loved to write of eyes	E
In which that nameless azure lies	E
So like shoal water in its hue	F
Though all too crystal clear for blue	F
As you would suppose the miller	A
Was very proud of her	A
And would never fail to tell some tale	G
As to what her graces were	A
On the powdery air of his own mill	H
Floated the whispers of her skill	H
At the village inn the loungers knew	F
All that the pretty girl could do	F
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Oft in his braggart way	I
This foolish tale he told	J
That his daughter could spin from bits of straw	K
Continuous threads of gold	J
So boastful had he grown forsooth	L
That he cared but little for the truth	L
But since this was a curious thing	M
It came to the knowledge of the king	M
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He thought it an old wife's fable	N
But senseless stuff at best	O
Yet as he had greed he cried Indeed	P
I will put her powers to test	O
With a wave of his hand he further said	Q
That to morrow morning the clever maid	R
Should come to the castle and he would see	S
What truth in the story there might be	S
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Next day with a trembling step	T
She reached the palace door	U
And was shown into a chamber where	V
Was straw upon the floor	U
They brought her a chair and a spinning wheel	W
A little can of oil and a reel	W
And said that unless the work was done	X
All of the straw into the gold thread spun	X
By the time that the sun was an hour high	Y
Next morning she would have to die	Y
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Down sat she in despair	V
Her tears falling like rain	Z
She had never spun a thread in her life	A2
Nor ever reeled a skein	Z
Hark the door creaked and through a chink	B2
With droll wise smile and funny wink	B2
In stepped a little quaint old man	C2
All humped and crooked and browned with tan	C2
	-
She looked in fear and amaze	D2
To see what he would do	F
He said Little maid what will you give	E2
If I'll spin the straw for you	F
Ah me few gifts she had in store	U
A trinket or two and nothing more	U
A necklace from her throat so slim	F2
She took and timidly offered him	F2
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'Twas enough it seemed for he sat	G2
At the wheel in front of her	A
And turned it three times round and round	H2
Whirr and whirr rr and whirr rr rr	A
One of the bobbins was full and then	I2
Whirr and whirr rr and whirr rr rr again	I2
Until all the straw that had been spread	Q
Had been deftly spun into golden thread	Q
	-
At sunrise came the king	M
To the chamber and behold	J
Instead of the ugly heaps of straw	A
Were bobbins full of gold	J
This made him greedier than before	A
And he led the maiden out at the door	A
Into a new room where she saw	A
Still larger and larger heaps of straw	A
A chair to sit in a spinning wheel	W
A little can of oil and a reel	W
And he said that straw too must be spun	X
To gold before the next day's sun	X
Was an hour high in the morning sky	Y
And if 'twas not done she must die	Y
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Down sank she in despair	A
Her tears falling like rain	Z
She could not spin a single thread	Q
She could not reel a skein	Z
But the door swung back and through the chink	B2
With the same droll smile and merry wink	B2
The dwarf peered saying What will you do	F
If I'll spin the straw once more for you	F
Ah me I can give not a single thing	M
She cried except my finger ring	M
He took the slender toy	J2
And slipped it over his thumb	K2
Then down he sat and whirled the wheel	W
Hum and hum m and hum m m	L2
Round and round with a droning sound	H2
Many a yellow spool he wound	H2
Many a glistening skein he reeled	M2
And still like bees in a clover field	M2
The wheel went hum and hum m and hum m m	L2
Next morning the king came	N2
Almost before sunrise	E
To the chamber where the maiden was	B
And could scarce believe his eyes	E
To see the straw to the smallest shreds	O2
Made into shining amber threads	O2
And he cried When once more I have tried	P2
Your skill like this you shall be my bride	P2
	-
For I might search through all my life	A2
Nor find elsewhere so rich a wife	A2
	-
Then he led her by the hand	Q2
Through still another door	A
To a room filled twice as full of straw	A
As either had been before	A
There stood the chair and the spinning wheel	W
And there the can of oil and the reel	W
And as he gently shut her in	R2
He whispered Spin little maiden spin	R2
	-
Again she wept and again	I2
Did the little dwarf appear	A
What will you give this time he asked	S2
If I spin for you my dear	A
	-
Alas poor little maid alas	D
Out of her eyes as gray as glass	D
Faster and faster tears did fall	T2
As she moaned I've nothing to give at all	T2
Ah wicked indeed he looked	U2
But while she sighed he smiled	V2
Promise when you are queen he said	Q
To give me your first born child	V2
Little she tho't what that might mean	W2
Or if ever in truth she should be queen	W2
Anything so that the work was done	X
Anything so that the gold was spun	X
She promised all that he chose to ask	X2
And blithely he began the task	X2
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Round went the wheel and round	H2
Whiz and whiz z and whiz z z	S
So swift that the thread at the spindle point	Y2
Flew off with buzz and hiss	Z2
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She dozed so tired her eyelids were	A
To the endless whirr and whirr and whirr	A
Though not even sleep could overcome	K2
The wheel's revolving hum hum hum	K2
When at last she woke the room was clean	W2
Not a broken bit of straw was seen	W2
But in huge high heaps were piled and rolled	J
Great spools of gold nothing but gold	J
It was just at the earliest peep of dawn	A3
And she was alone the dwarf was gone	A3
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It was indeed a marvellous thing	M
For a miller's daughter to wed a king	M
But never was royal lady seen	W2
More fair and sweet than this young queen	W2
The spinning dwarf she quite forgot	B3
In the ease and pleasure of her lot	B3
And not until her first born child	V2
Into her face had looked and smiled	V2
Did she remember the promise made	R
Then her heart grew sick her soul afraid	R
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One day her chamber door	A
Pushed open just a chink	B2
And she saw the well known crooked dwarf	C3
His wise smile and his blink	B2
He claimed at once the promised child	V2
But she gave a cry so sad and wild	V2
That even his heart was touched to hear	A
And after a little drawing near	A
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He whispered and said You pledged	D3
The baby and I came	N2
But if in three days you can learn	E3
By foul or fair my name	N2
By foul or fair by wile or snare	A
You can its syllables declare	A
Then is the child yours only then	I2
And me you shall never see again	I2
	-
He vanished from her sight	C
And she called her pages in	R2
She sent one this way and one that	G2
She called her kith and kin	R2
Bade one go here and one go there	A
Despatched them thither everywhere	A
That from each quarter each might bring	M
The oddest names he could to the king	M
	-
Next morning the dwarf appeared	F3
And the queen began to say	I
Caspar Balthassar Melchoir	A
But the dwarf cried out Nay nay	I
Shaking his little crooked frame	N2
That's not my name that's not my name	N2
	-
The second day 'twas the same	N2
But the third a messenger	A
Came in from the mountains to the queen	W2
And told this tale to her	A
That riding under the forest boughs	G3
He came to a tiny curious house	H3
Before it a feeble fire burned wan	I3
And about the fire was a little man	C2
In and out the brands among	J3
Dancing upon one leg he sung	J3
To day I'll stew and then I'll bake	K3
To morrow I shall the queen's child take	K3
How fine that none is the secret in	R2
That my name is Rumpelstiltskin	R2
	-
The queen was overjoyed	L3
And when due time next day	I
The dwarf returned for the final word	M3
She made great haste to say	I
	-
Is it Conrade No he shook his head	Q
Is it Hans or Hal Still No he said	Q
Is it Rumpelstiltskin then she cried	P2
A witch has told you he replied	P2
And shrieked and stamped his foot so hard	N3
That the very marble floor was jarred	N3
And his leg broke off above the knee	R2
And he hopped off howling terribly	R2
	-
He vanished then and there	A
And never more was seen	R2
This much was in his dreadful name	N2
It saved her child to the queen	R2
And the little lady grew to be	R2
So very sweet so fair to see	R2
That none could her loveliness surpass	D
And her eyes they were as gray as glass	D