The Pixy People Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEEGHGH EIEIGJGJ KLKLMNON APAPLQLQ QRQRQNQN SPSPSLSL ABABCDCD| It was just a very | A |
| Merry fairy dream | B |
| All the woods were airy | A |
| With the gloom and gleam | B |
| Crickets in the clover | C |
| Clattered clear and strong | D |
| And the bees droned over | C |
| Their old honey song | D |
| - | |
| In the mossy passes | E |
| Saucy grasshoppers | F |
| Leapt about the grasses | E |
| And the thistle burs | E |
| And the whispered chuckle | G |
| Of the katydid | H |
| Shook the honeysuckle | G |
| Blossoms where he hid | H |
| - | |
| Through the breezy mazes | E |
| Of the lazy June | I |
| Drowsy with the hazes | E |
| Of the dreamy noon | I |
| Little Pixy people | G |
| Winged above the walk | J |
| Pouring from the steeple | G |
| Of a mullein stalk | J |
| - | |
| One a gallant fellow | K |
| Evidently King | L |
| Wore a plume of yellow | K |
| In a jewelled ring | L |
| On a pansy bonnet | M |
| Gold and white and blue | N |
| With the dew still on it | O |
| And the fragrance too | N |
| - | |
| One a dainty lady | A |
| Evidently Queen | P |
| Wore a gown of shady | A |
| Moonshine and green | P |
| With a lace of gleaming | L |
| Starlight that sent | Q |
| All the dewdrops dreaming | L |
| Everywhere she went | Q |
| - | |
| One wore a waistcoat | Q |
| Of roseleaves out and in | R |
| And one wore a faced coat | Q |
| Of tiger lily skin | R |
| And one wore a neat coat | Q |
| Of palest galingale | N |
| And one a tiny street coat | Q |
| And one a swallow tail | N |
| - | |
| And Ho sang the King of them | S |
| And Hey sang the Queen | P |
| And round and round the ring of them | S |
| Went dancing o'er the green | P |
| And Hey sang the Queen of them | S |
| And Ho sang the King | L |
| And all that I had seen of them | S |
| Wasn't anything | L |
| - | |
| It was just a very | A |
| Merry fairy dream | B |
| All the woods were airy | A |
| With the gloom and gleam | B |
| Crickets in the clover | C |
| Clattered clear and strong | D |
| And the bees droned over | C |
| Their old honey song | D |
James Whitcomb Riley
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