The White Foxglove Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDAAD EFEFCGCGEEG HIHJJKJKEEK JCJCJLJLEEL EMEMJFJFEEF| Reynard the fox was asked to a party | A |
| Come they said in your Sunday best | B |
| For we like good form tho' the fun be hearty | A |
| So all who dance must be formally dressed | B |
| Black tail coat and a shirt front gleaming | C |
| Brushed and burnished each dancing shoe | D |
| Pantaloons with a silk braid seaming | C |
| Clean white gloves of the snowiest hue | D |
| This most especially | A |
| Very especially | A |
| Snow white gloves of a spotless hue | D |
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| Reynard the fox as he dressed says the fable | E |
| Dreamed of the dance and his lady love | F |
| Then he searched and he hunted in dresser and table | E |
| But all he discovered was one old glove | F |
| A horrible glove with a broad black stitching | C |
| Sorriest match for his stiff white shirt | G |
| Could lover go wooing a maid so bewitching | C |
| Wearing but one glove grubby with dirt | G |
| Oh most disgustedly | E |
| Very disgustedly | E |
| Creased and crumpled and yellow with dirt | G |
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| Said Reynard the fox to the King of the Fairies | H |
| King I come to you craving a dower | I |
| Gloves All as white as the lamb that was Mary's | H |
| Pray you fashion a pair from a magic flower | J |
| From a summer cloud from the web of a spider | J |
| Skin of a toadstool a snowberry rind | K |
| Down from the breast of a fledgling eider | J |
| And the King said Sure for the King was kind | K |
| Ever so graciously | E |
| Gaily and graciously | E |
| Oke said the Monarch for he was kind | K |
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| Then Reynard the fox beheld a wonder | J |
| A wave of his wand by the Fairy King | C |
| And there with the green leaves spreading under | J |
| Sprang forth a sceptre a magic thing | C |
| With garlands of gloves in a gleaming cluster | J |
| White as the fleeces of new shorn flocks | L |
| That fairy shepherds in Arcady muster | J |
| And a pair they presented to Reynard the fox | L |
| They fitted him perfectly | E |
| Said the King perfectly | E |
| Your Majesty ' Thank you said Reynard the fox | L |
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| Reynard the fox made haste to the revel | E |
| Beau of the ball as they had to confess | M |
| And the ladies sighed What a handsome devil | E |
| As for his lady of course it was yes | M |
| Then they danced and they fasted with merry laughter | J |
| While Reynard weaved dreams in the clouds above | F |
| And they called that blossom from then ever after | J |
| Men foxes and fairies the white Fox glove | F |
| Tall and so slenderly | E |
| Graceful and tenderly | E |
| Swaying its sceptre the White Fox Glove | F |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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