The Magpie Lark Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFG CCHHBBBBIIF JJKKBBDLMMF| By lagoons and reedy places | A |
| Where the little river races | A |
| By the lips of dreaming pools | B |
| Where the soothing water cools | B |
| Many a verdant slope and hollow | C |
| Here my blithesome way I follow | C |
| Anywhere that waters glisten | D |
| Pause a little while and listen | D |
| You will hear my plaintive note | E |
| O'er the placid mirror float | E |
| Tho' nought know I of plaint or fret | F |
| 'Pierrot Pierrette Pierrot Pierrette ' | G |
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| Pierrot am I light hearted fellow | C |
| Be the day morose or mellow | C |
| And pierrette my dainty wife | H |
| Adopts a like gay view of life | H |
| We dance we dance amid the sedges | B |
| Dance by duplicated edges | B |
| Of the peaceful little ponds | B |
| Now I bow and she responds | B |
| And then we dance together there | I |
| Rise aloft and dance on air | I |
| Rising falling calling yet | F |
| 'Pierrot Pierrette Pierrot Pierrette ' | - |
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| Thistledown was ne'er so light | J |
| As our dainty dancing flight | J |
| Gay pied pipers trim and neat | K |
| Joy is in our wings our feet | K |
| Grace is in our every pose | B |
| We dance we dance till at day's close | B |
| When the pool's dark mirrors limn | D |
| Twilit glory at the brim | L |
| Trees and opalescent sky | M |
| We dance away and as we fly | M |
| Our call comes faint and fainter yet | F |
| 'Pierrot Pierrette Pierrot ' | - |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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