A Fable Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEBAFG ABHHDEBAFG ABIIFFBAF ABJJDEBAFG| SILENT and sunny was the way | A |
| Where Youth and I danced on together | B |
| So winding and embowered o'er | B |
| We could not see one rood before | C |
| Nevertheless all merrily | D |
| We bounded onward Youth and I | E |
| Leashed closely in a silken tether | B |
| Well a day well a day | A |
| Ah Youth ah Youth but I would fain | F |
| See thy sweet foolish face again | G |
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| It came to pass one morn of May | A |
| All in a swoon of golden weather | B |
| That I through green leaves fluttering | H |
| Saw Joy uprise on Psyche wing | H |
| Eagerly too eagerly | D |
| We followed after Youth and I | E |
| Till suddenly he slipped the tether | B |
| Well a day well a day | A |
| 'Where art thou Youth ' I cried In vain | F |
| He never more came back again | G |
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| Yet onward through the devious way | A |
| In rain or shine I recked not whether | B |
| Like many other maddened boy | I |
| I tracked my Psyche wing d Joy | I |
| Till curving round the bowery lane | F |
| Lo in the pathway stood pale Pain | F |
| And we met face to face together | B |
| Well a day well a day | A |
| 'Whence comest thou ' and I writhed in vain | F |
| 'Unloose thy cruel grasp O Pain ' | - |
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| But he would not Since day by day | A |
| He has ta'en up Youth's silken tether | B |
| And changed it into iron bands | J |
| So through rich vales and barren lands | J |
| Solemnly all solemnly | D |
| March we united he and I | E |
| And we have grown such friends together | B |
| Well a day well a day | A |
| I and this my brother Pain | F |
| I think we'll never part again | G |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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