Thistledown Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJIAIA| She danced thro' life as light as thistledown | A |
| The grace of Columbine charm of Pierette | B |
| These and that blithesome quality of thistledown | A |
| With memory of her linger by us yet | B |
| A fairy slipping thro' a world material | C |
| Shaming dull men made gross thro' mundance schemes | D |
| She came to us a being half ethereal | C |
| To lure us into lands of strange sweet dreams | D |
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| One hour she gave us of Elysian rapture | E |
| A mood a vision lamentably rare | F |
| And now in vain our dark minds would recapture | E |
| The wholesome sweetness of her dancing there | F |
| Dancing and ever dancing gaily smilingly | G |
| Lending her genius in a hundred parts | H |
| Leading us on to Fairyland beguilingly | G |
| Dancing and dancing straight into our hearts | H |
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| And she has gone What need is there to tell us | I |
| She was not ours who guessed not half her worth | J |
| Or that the high gods watching had grown jealous | I |
| That she should waste such sweetness on mere earth | J |
| So she who for a little while was lent to us | I |
| To cleanse with poetry the hearts of men | A |
| A sprite a fairy pitying Heaven sent to us | I |
| Like thistledown is wafted from our ken | A |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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