A Fairy Tale. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CCDEED AAFGGF AAACCA HHIGGI JJKLLK| On court h las apr s la v rit | A |
| Ah croyez moi l'erreur a son m rite | A |
| Voltaire | B |
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| Curled in a maze of dolls and bricks | C |
| I find Miss Mary tat six | C |
| Blonde blue eyed frank capricious | D |
| Absorbed in her first fairy book | E |
| From which she scarce can pause to look | E |
| Because it's so delicious | D |
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| Such marvels too A wondrous Boat | A |
| In which they cross a magic Moat | A |
| That's smooth as glass to row on | F |
| A Cat that brings all kinds of things | G |
| And see the Queen has angel wings | G |
| Then OGRE comes and so on | F |
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| What trash it is How sad to find | A |
| Dear Moralist the childish mind | A |
| So active and so pliant | A |
| Rejecting themes in which you mix | C |
| Fond truths and pleasing facts to fix | C |
| On tales of Dwarf and Giant | A |
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| In merest prudence men should teach | H |
| That cats mellifluous in speech | H |
| Are painful contradictions | I |
| That science ranks as monstrous things | G |
| Two pairs of upper limbs so wings | G |
| E'en angels' wings are fictions | I |
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| That there's no giant now but Steam | J |
| That life although an empty dream | J |
| Is scarce a land of Fairy | K |
| Of course I said all this Why no | L |
| I did a thing far wiser though | L |
| I read the tale with Mary | K |
Henry Austin Dobson
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