Modern Elfland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA ACDC AEFE AGAG HIAI JKLM NCE OPQI 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 ' | - |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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