Fern Hill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFBG HIBBJKLMBN OPQBRSOTSSU GVWXOGYZA2S SB2C2SOSSWS D2BE2YF2SE2SYB| lilting house and happy as the grass was green | A |
| The night above the dingle starry | B |
| Time let me hail and climb | C |
| Golden in the heydays of his eyes | D |
| And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns | E |
| And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves | F |
| Trail with daisies and barley | B |
| Down the rivers of the windfall light | G |
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| And as I was green and carefree famous among the barns | H |
| About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home | I |
| In the sun that is young once only | B |
| Time let me play and be | B |
| Golden in the mercy of his means | J |
| And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman the calves | K |
| Sang to my horn the foxes on the hills barked clear and | L |
| cold | M |
| And the sabbath rang slowly | B |
| In the pebbles of the holy streams | N |
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| All the sun long it was running it was lovely the hay | O |
| Fields high as the house the tunes from the chimneys it was | P |
| air | Q |
| And playing lovely and watery | B |
| And fire green as grass | R |
| And nightly under the simple stars | S |
| As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm away | O |
| All the moon long I heard blessed among stables the | T |
| nightjars | S |
| Flying with the ricks and the horses | S |
| Flashing into the dark | U |
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| And then to awake and the farm like a wanderer white | G |
| With the dew come back the cock on his shoulder it was all | V |
| Shining it was Adam and maiden | W |
| The sky gathered again | X |
| And the sun grew round that very day | O |
| So it must have been after the birth of the simple light | G |
| In the first spinning place the spellbound horses walking | Y |
| warm | Z |
| Out of the whinnying green stable | A2 |
| On to the fields of praise | S |
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| And honoured among foxes and pheasants by the gay house | S |
| Under the new made clouds and happy as the heart was long | B2 |
| In the sun born over and over | C2 |
| I ran my heedless ways | S |
| My wishes raced through the house high hay | O |
| And nothing I cared at my sky blue trades that time allows | S |
| In all his tuneful turning so few and such morning songs | S |
| Before the children green and golden | W |
| Follow him out of grace | S |
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| Nothing I cared in the lamb white days that time would | D2 |
| take me | B |
| Up to the swallow thronged loft by the shadow of my hand | E2 |
| In the moon that is always rising | Y |
| Nor that riding to sleep | F2 |
| I should hear him fly with the high fields | S |
| And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land | E2 |
| Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means | S |
| Time held me green and dying | Y |
| Though I sang in my chains like the sea | B |
Dylan Thomas
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