The Faun Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCE EBEEB FBFFB BBBBB EBEEB EBEEB GEGGE HBHHB HBHHB EIEEI EBEEB JBKKB GBGGB LELLE

When I was but a little boyA
Who hunted in the woodB
To scare or mangle or destroyA
A freakish elemental joyA
That tasted life and found it goodB
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I hardly heard the awful banC
That mutters round the freeD
But followed where the waters ranC
And wondered when the pipe of PanC
Shook silence with its minstrelsyE
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Where sun spray glittered on my limbsE
I danced and laughed and trilledB
My happy incoherent hymnsE
Sped only by the whirling whimsE
With which my eager heart was filledB
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The wind was glad and so was IF
My soul lay open wideB
Reflecting all the starry skyF
The swallows called to me to flyF
I dreamed of how the fishes glideB
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But while my errant feet were setB
On mosses cool and sweetB
The great grey phantoms brooding metB
Within the shades and cast a netB
With dreary charms about my feetB
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They pent me in a barren placeE
A city so they saidB
Of gallant wonder working graceE
But haunted haunted by a raceE
Of rigid unperceptive deadB
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With sightless eyes they pored on booksE
And scrawled on many a sheetB
Their regimental strokes and hooksE
And stalked about with pompous looksE
Top hatted in the civil streetB
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I strove to flee but everywhereG
Met solid seeming wallsE
And yet I knew the world was fairG
And hearkening well heard even thereG
A bird and distant waterfallsE
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And love which I had scarcely knownH
Leaped upward as I heardB
I blessed the creek the mossy stoneH
The fern along the gully strownH
The little beasts the piping birdB
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Could walls o'ermaster one who knewH
The world of outer lightB
The very shadow that they threwH
Was tindured with a deeper blueH
Because the quickening sun was brightB
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I laughed aloud as one who leapsE
Against a curling waveI
And as a widening ripple creepsE
A shudder caught the stony steepsE
And life shook laughing in the graveI
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O phantoms who are you to fixE
Eternal towers of prideB
I mocked at their fantastic tricksE
I thrust my fingers through the bricksE
And felt the flowers the other sideB
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I pricked my pointed ears to hearJ
The love song of the birdB
And dear was every note and dearK
The myriad sounds that echoed nearK
The magically chorus'd wordB
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I saw the fading phantoms glareG
Their tones to silence hissedB
The walls bulged brightening everywhereG
And thinned and melted in the airG
To ragged streams of rosy mistB
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Trill happy bird for ever trillL
For I have learned to blessE
The great grey shades whose thwarted willL
Turned earth to heaven and I am stillL
A dweller in the wildernessE

John Le Gay Brereton



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