Elinor Morton Wylie

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The Fairy Goldsmith Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDDEED DDDFFD GGHIIH JJKLLK MMNOON PPDQQD RRSTTS SSSSSS

Here's a wonderful thingA
A humming bird's wingA
In hammered goldB
And store well chosenC
Of snowflakes frozenC
In crystal coldB
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Black onyx cherriesD
And mistletoe berriesD
Of chrysopraseD
Jade buds tight shutE
All carven and cutE
In intricate waysD
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Here if you pleaseD
Are little gilt beesD
In amber dropsD
Which look like honeyF
Translucent and sunnyF
From clover topsD
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Here's an elfin girlG
Of mother of pearlG
And moonshine madeH
With tortise shell hairI
Both dusky and fairI
In its light and shadeH
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Here's lacquer laid thinJ
Like a scarlet skinJ
On an ivory fruitK
And a filigree frostL
Of frail notes lostL
From a fairy luteK
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Here's a turquoise chainM
Of sun shower rainM
To wear if you wishN
And glittering greenO
With aquamarineO
A silvery fishN
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Here are pearls all strungP
On a thread amongP
Pretty pink shellsD
And bubbles blownQ
From the opal stoneQ
Which ring like bellsD
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Touch them and take themR
But do not break themR
Beneath your handS
They will wither like foamT
If you carry them homeT
Out of fairy lanndS
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O they never can lastS
Though you hide them fastS
From moth and from rustS
In your monstrous dayS
They will crumble awayS
Into quicksilver dustS

Elinor Morton Wylie



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