The Fairy Changeling Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEDD FFGH IIB JKHH DDBB| Dermod O'Byrne of Omah town | A |
| In his garden strode up and down | A |
| He pulled his beard and he beat his breast | B |
| And this is his trouble and woe confessed | B |
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| The good folk came in the night and they | C |
| Have stolen my bonny wean away | C |
| Have put in his place a changeling | D |
| A weashy weakly wizen thing | D |
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| From the speckled hen nine eggs I stole | E |
| And lighting a fire of a glowing coal | E |
| I fried the shells and I spilt the yolk | D |
| But never a word the stranger spoke | D |
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| A bar of metal I heated red | F |
| To frighten the fairy from its bed | F |
| To put in the place of this fretting wean | G |
| My own bright beautiful boy again | H |
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| But my wife had hidden it in her arms | I |
| And cried 'For shame ' on my fairy charms | I |
| She sobs with the strange child on her breast | B |
| 'I love the weak wee babe the best ' | - |
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| To Dermod O'Byrne's the tale to hear | J |
| The neighbours came from far and near | K |
| Outside his gate in the long boreen | H |
| They crossed themselves and said between | H |
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| Their muttered prayers He has no luck | D |
| For sure the woman is fairy struck | D |
| To leave her child a fairy guest | B |
| And love the weak wee wean the best | B |
Dora Sigerson Shorter
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