Modern Elfland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA ACDC AEFE AGAG HIAI JKLM NCE OPQ| I cut a staff in a churchyard copse | A |
| I clad myself in ragged things | A |
| I set a feather in my cap | B |
| That fell out of an angel's wings | A |
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| I filled my wallet with white stones | A |
| I took three foxgloves in my hand | C |
| I slung my shoes across my back | D |
| And so I went to fairyland | C |
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| But Lo within that ancient place | A |
| Science had reared her iron crown | E |
| And the great cloud of steam went up | F |
| That telleth where she takes a town | E |
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| But cowled with smoke and starred with lamps | A |
| That strange land's light was still its own | G |
| The word that witched the woods and hills | A |
| Spoke in the iron and the stone | G |
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| Not Nature's hand had ever curved | H |
| That mute unearthly porter's spine | I |
| Like sleeping dragon's sudden eyes | A |
| The signals leered along the line | I |
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| The chimneys thronging crooked or straight | J |
| Were fingers signalling the sky | K |
| The dog that strayed across the street | L |
| Seemed four legged by monstrosity | M |
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| 'In vain ' I cried 'though you too touch | N |
| The new time's desecrating hand | C |
| Through all the noises of a town | E |
| I hear the heart of fairyland ' | - |
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| I read the name above a door | O |
| Then through my spirit pealed and passed | P |
| 'This is the town of thine own home | Q |
| And thou hast looked on it at last ' | - |
G. K. Chesterton
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