The Fawn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFG HFFF FIF JFJKF FLFMNF| There it was I saw what I shall never forget | A |
| And never retrieve | B |
| Monstrous and beautiful to human eyes hard to | C |
| believe | B |
| He lay yet there he lay | D |
| Asleep on the moss his head on his polished cleft | E |
| small ebony hoves | F |
| The child of the doe the dappled child of the deer | G |
| - | |
| Surely his mother had never said Lie here | H |
| Till I return so spotty and plain to see | F |
| On the green moss lay he | F |
| His eyes had opened he considered me | F |
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| I would have given more than I care to say | F |
| To thrifty ears might I have had him for my friend | I |
| One moment only of that forest day | F |
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| Might I have had the acceptance not the love | J |
| Of those clear eyes | F |
| Might I have been for him in the bough above | J |
| Or the root beneath his forest bed | K |
| A part of the forest seen without surprise | F |
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| Was it alarm or was it the wind of my fear lest he | F |
| depart | L |
| That jerked him to his jointy knees | F |
| And sent him crashing off leaping and stumbling | M |
| On his new legs between the stems of the white | N |
| trees | F |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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