Little Elfie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEE GHGH IJIJ KLKL MEME KNKN OPOP QQQQ RSRS| I have a puppet jointed child | A |
| She's but three half years old | B |
| Through lawless hair her eyes gleam wild | A |
| With looks both shy and bold | B |
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| Like little imps her tiny hands | C |
| Dart out and push and take | D |
| Chide her a trembling thing she stands | C |
| And like two leaves they shake | D |
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| But to her mind a minute gone | E |
| Is like a year ago | F |
| And when you lift your eyes anon | E |
| Anon you must say No | E |
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| Sometimes though not oppressed with care | G |
| She has her sleepless fits | H |
| Then blanket swathed in that round chair | G |
| The elfish mortal sits | H |
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| Where if by chance in mood more grave | I |
| A hermit she appears | J |
| Propped in the opening of his cave | I |
| Mummied almost with years | J |
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| Or like an idol set upright | K |
| With folded legs for stem | L |
| Ready to hear prayers all the night | K |
| And never answer them | L |
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| But where's the idol hermit thrust | M |
| Her knees like flail joints go | E |
| Alternate kiss her mother must | M |
| Now that now this big toe | E |
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| I turn away from her and write | K |
| For minutes three or four | N |
| A tiny spectre tall and white | K |
| She's standing by the door | N |
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| Then something comes into my head | O |
| That makes me stop and think | P |
| She's on the table the quadruped | O |
| And dabbling in my ink | P |
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| O Elfie make no haste to lose | Q |
| Thy ignorance of offence | Q |
| Thou hast the best gift I could choose | Q |
| A heavenly confidence | Q |
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| 'Tis time long white gowned Mrs Ham | R |
| To put you in the ark | S |
| Sleep Elfie God infolded lamb | R |
| Sleep shining through the dark | S |
George Macdonald
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