The Fairy Goldsmith Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDDEED DDDFFD GGHIIH JJKLLK MMNOON PPDQQD RRSTTS SSSSSS| Here's a wonderful thing | A |
| A humming bird's wing | A |
| In hammered gold | B |
| And store well chosen | C |
| Of snowflakes frozen | C |
| In crystal cold | B |
| - | |
| Black onyx cherries | D |
| And mistletoe berries | D |
| Of chrysoprase | D |
| Jade buds tight shut | E |
| All carven and cut | E |
| In intricate ways | D |
| - | |
| Here if you please | D |
| Are little gilt bees | D |
| In amber drops | D |
| Which look like honey | F |
| Translucent and sunny | F |
| From clover tops | D |
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| Here's an elfin girl | G |
| Of mother of pearl | G |
| And moonshine made | H |
| With tortise shell hair | I |
| Both dusky and fair | I |
| In its light and shade | H |
| - | |
| Here's lacquer laid thin | J |
| Like a scarlet skin | J |
| On an ivory fruit | K |
| And a filigree frost | L |
| Of frail notes lost | L |
| From a fairy lute | K |
| - | |
| Here's a turquoise chain | M |
| Of sun shower rain | M |
| To wear if you wish | N |
| And glittering green | O |
| With aquamarine | O |
| A silvery fish | N |
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| Here are pearls all strung | P |
| On a thread among | P |
| Pretty pink shells | D |
| And bubbles blown | Q |
| From the opal stone | Q |
| Which ring like bells | D |
| - | |
| Touch them and take them | R |
| But do not break them | R |
| Beneath your hand | S |
| They will wither like foam | T |
| If you carry them home | T |
| Out of fairy lannd | S |
| - | |
| O they never can last | S |
| Though you hide them fast | S |
| From moth and from rust | S |
| In your monstrous day | S |
| They will crumble away | S |
| Into quicksilver dust | S |
Elinor Morton Wylie
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