A Fancy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBD DEDFG HGIJE JDKLK BMLML NGNLB OBPDD DDFCF QRDRL BEB| A LITTLE sprite sat on a moonbeam | A |
| When the night was waning away | B |
| And over the world to the eastward | C |
| Spread the first faint flush of day | B |
| The moonbeam was cold and slippery | D |
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| And a fat little fairy was he | D |
| Around him the white clouds were sleeping | E |
| And under him slumbered the sea | D |
| Then the old moon looked out of her left eye | F |
| And laughed when she thought of the fun | G |
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| For she knew that the moonbeam he sat on | H |
| Would soon melt away in the sun | G |
| So she gave a slight shrug of her shoulders | I |
| And winked at a bright little star | J |
| The moon was remarkably knowing | E |
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| As old people always are | J |
| Great madam then answered the fairy | D |
| No doubt you are wonderfully wise | K |
| And know probably more than another | L |
| Of the ins and the outs of the skies | K |
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| But to think that we don't in our own way | B |
| An interest in sky things take | M |
| Is a common and fatal blunder | L |
| That sometimes you great ones make | M |
| For I've looked up from under the heather | L |
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| And watched you night after night | N |
| And marked your silent motion | G |
| And the fall of your silvery light | N |
| I have seen you grow larger and larger | L |
| I have watched you fade away | B |
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| I have seen you turn pale as a snowdrop | O |
| At the sudden approach of day | B |
| So don't think for a moment great madam | P |
| Tho' a poor little body I be | D |
| That I haven't my senses about me | D |
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| Or am going to fall into the sea | D |
| I have had what you only could give me | D |
| A pleasant night ride in the sky | F |
| But a new power arises to eastward | C |
| So now useless old lady good bye | F |
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| He whistled a low sweet whistle | Q |
| And up from the earth so dark | R |
| With its wings bespangled with dewdrops | D |
| There bounded a merry lark | R |
| He's mounted the tiny singer | L |
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| And soared through the heavens away | B |
| With his face all aglow in the morning | E |
| And a song for the rising day | B |
Frederick George Scott
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