The Faun Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCE EBEEB FBFFB BBBBB EBEEB EBEEB GEGGE HBHHB HBHHB EIEEI EBEEB JBKKB GBGGB LELLEWhen I was but a little boy | A |
Who hunted in the wood | B |
To scare or mangle or destroy | A |
A freakish elemental joy | A |
That tasted life and found it good | B |
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I hardly heard the awful ban | C |
That mutters round the free | D |
But followed where the waters ran | C |
And wondered when the pipe of Pan | C |
Shook silence with its minstrelsy | E |
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Where sun spray glittered on my limbs | E |
I danced and laughed and trilled | B |
My happy incoherent hymns | E |
Sped only by the whirling whims | E |
With which my eager heart was filled | B |
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The wind was glad and so was I | F |
My soul lay open wide | B |
Reflecting all the starry sky | F |
The swallows called to me to fly | F |
I dreamed of how the fishes glide | B |
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But while my errant feet were set | B |
On mosses cool and sweet | B |
The great grey phantoms brooding met | B |
Within the shades and cast a net | B |
With dreary charms about my feet | B |
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They pent me in a barren place | E |
A city so they said | B |
Of gallant wonder working grace | E |
But haunted haunted by a race | E |
Of rigid unperceptive dead | B |
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With sightless eyes they pored on books | E |
And scrawled on many a sheet | B |
Their regimental strokes and hooks | E |
And stalked about with pompous looks | E |
Top hatted in the civil street | B |
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I strove to flee but everywhere | G |
Met solid seeming walls | E |
And yet I knew the world was fair | G |
And hearkening well heard even there | G |
A bird and distant waterfalls | E |
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And love which I had scarcely known | H |
Leaped upward as I heard | B |
I blessed the creek the mossy stone | H |
The fern along the gully strown | H |
The little beasts the piping bird | B |
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Could walls o'ermaster one who knew | H |
The world of outer light | B |
The very shadow that they threw | H |
Was tindured with a deeper blue | H |
Because the quickening sun was bright | B |
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I laughed aloud as one who leaps | E |
Against a curling wave | I |
And as a widening ripple creeps | E |
A shudder caught the stony steeps | E |
And life shook laughing in the grave | I |
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O phantoms who are you to fix | E |
Eternal towers of pride | B |
I mocked at their fantastic tricks | E |
I thrust my fingers through the bricks | E |
And felt the flowers the other side | B |
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I pricked my pointed ears to hear | J |
The love song of the bird | B |
And dear was every note and dear | K |
The myriad sounds that echoed near | K |
The magically chorus'd word | B |
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I saw the fading phantoms glare | G |
Their tones to silence hissed | B |
The walls bulged brightening everywhere | G |
And thinned and melted in the air | G |
To ragged streams of rosy mist | B |
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Trill happy bird for ever trill | L |
For I have learned to bless | E |
The great grey shades whose thwarted will | L |
Turned earth to heaven and I am still | L |
A dweller in the wilderness | E |
John Le Gay Brereton
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