Tennants Anster Fair Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Tennants Anster Fair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I	A
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'TIS the middle watch of a summer's night	B
The earth is dark but the heavens are bright	B
Nought is seen in the vault on high	A
But the moon and the stars and the cloudless sky	A
And the flood which rolls its milky hue	C
A river of light on the welkin blue	C
The moon looks down on old Cronest	B
She mellows the shades on his shaggy breast	B
And seems his huge gray form to throw	D
In a sliver cone on the wave below	D
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His sides are broken by spots of shade	B
By the walnut bough and the cedar made	B
And through their clustering branches dark	E
Glimmers and dies the fire fly's spark	E
Like starry twinkles that momently break	F
Through the rifts of the gathering tempest's rack	G
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II	A
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The stars are on the moving stream	H
And fling as its ripples gently flow	D
A burnished length of wavy beam	H
In an eel like spiral line below	D
The winds are whist and the owl is still	I
The bat in the shelvy rock is hid	B
And nought is heard on the lonely hill	I
But the cricket's chirp and the answer shrill	I
Of the gauze winged katy did	B
And the plaint of the wailing whip poor will	I
Who moans unseen and ceaseless sings	J
Ever a note of wail and wo	D
Till morning spreads her rosy wings	J
And earth and sky in her glances glow	D
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III	A
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'Tis the hour of fairy ban and spell	K
The wood tick has kept the minutes well	K
He has counted them all with click and stroke	L
Deep in the heart of the mountain oak	L
And he has awakened the sentry elve	A
Who sleeps with him in the haunted tree	M
To bid him ring the hour of twelve	A
And call the fays to their revelry	M
Twelve small strokes on his tinkling bell	K
'Twas made of the white snail's pearly shell	K
Midnight comes and all is well	K
Hither hither wing your way	N
'Tis the dawn of the fairy day	N
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IV	A
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They come from beds of lichen green	O
They creep from the mullen's velvet screen	O
Some on the backs of beetles fly	A
From the silver tops of moon touched trees	P
Where they swung in their cobweb hammocks high	A
And rock'd about in the evening breeze	P
Some from the hum bird's downy nest	B
They had driven him out by elfin power	Q
And pillowed on plumes of his rainbow breast	B
Had slumbered there till the charmed hour	Q
Some had lain in the scoop of the rock	R
With glittering ising stars inlaid	B
And some had opened the four o'clock	R
And stole within its purple shade	B
And now they throng the moonlight glade	B
Above below on every side	B
Their little minim forms arrayed	B
In the tricksy pomp of fairy pride	B
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V	A
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They come not now to print the lea	A
In freak and dance around the tree	A
Or at the mushroom board to sup	S
And drink the dew from the buttercup	S
A scene of sorrow waits them now	T
For an Ouphe has broken his vestal vow	T
He has loved an earthly maid	B
And left for her his woodland shade	B
He has lain upon her lip of dew	B
And sunned him in her eye of blue	B
Fann'd her cheek with his wing of air	U
Played in the ringlets of her hair	U
And nestling on her snowy breast	B
Forgot the lily king's behest	B
For this the shadowy tribes of air	U
To the elfin court must haste away	N
And now they stand expectant there	U
To hear the doom of the Culprit Fay	N
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VI	A
	-
The throne was reared upon the grass	V
Of spice wood and of sassafras	V
On pillars of mottled tortoise shell	K
Hung the burnished canopy	A
And o'er it gorgeous curtains fell	K
Of the tulip's crimson drapery	A
The monarch sat on his judgment seat	B
On his brow the crown imperial shone	W
The prisoner Fay was at his feet	B
And his peers were ranged around the throne	W
He waved his sceptre in the air	U
He looked around and calmly spoke	L
His brow was grave and his eye severe	X
But his voice in a softened accent broke	L
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VII	A
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Fairy Fairy list and mark	E
Thou hast broke thine elfin chain	Y
Thy flame wood lamp is quenched and dark	E
And thy wings are dyed with a deadly stain	Y
Thou hast sullied thine elfin purity	A
In the glance of a mortal maiden's eye	A
Thou hast scorned our dread decree	A
And thou shouldst pay the forfeit high	A
But well I know her sinless mind	B
Is pure as the angel forms above	A
Gentle and meek and chaste and kind	B
Such as a spirit well might love	A
Fairy had she spot or taint	B
Bitter had been thy punishment	B
Tied to the hornet's shardy wings	J
Tossed on the pricks of nettles' stings	J
Or seven long ages doomed to dwell	K
With the lazy worm in the walnut shell	K
Or every night to writhe and bleed	B
Beneath the tread of the centipede	B
Or bound in a cobweb dungeon dim	Z
Your jailer a spider huge and grim	Z
Amid the carrion bodies to lie	A
Of the worm and the bug and the murdered fly	A
These it had been your lot to bear	U
Had a stain been found on the earthly fair	U
Now list and mark our mild decree	A
Fairy this your doom must be	A
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VIII	A
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Thou shalt seek the beach of sand	B
Where the water bounds the elfin land	B
Thou shalt watch the oozy brine	A2
Till the sturgeon leaps in the bright moonshine	A2
Then dart the glistening arch below	D
And catch a drop from his silver bow	T
The water sprites will wield their arms	B2
And dash around with roar and rave	A
And vain are the woodland spirits' charms	B2
They are the imps that rule the wave	A
Yet trust thee in thy single might	B
If thy heart be pure and thy spirit right	B
Thou shalt win the warlock fight	B
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IX	B2
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If the spray bead gem be won	C2
The stain of thy wing is washed away	N
But another errand must be done	C2
Ere thy crime be lost for aye	A
Thy flame wood lamp is quenched and dark	E
Thou must re illume its spark	E
Mount thy steed and spur him high	A
To the heaven's blue canopy	A
And when thou seest a shooting star	D2
Follow it fast and follow it far	D2
The last faint spark of its burning train	Y
Shall light the elfin lamp again	E2
Thou hast heard our sentence Fay	N
Hence to the water side away	N
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X	B2
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The goblin marked his monarch well	K
He spake not but he bowed him low	D
Then plucked a crimson colen bell	K
And turned him round in act to go	D
The way is long he cannot fly	A
His soiled wing has lost its power	Q
And he winds adown the mountain high	A
For many a sore and weary hour	Q
Through dreary beds of tangled fern	F2
Through groves of nightshade dark and dern	F2
Over the grass and through the brake	F
Where toils the ant and sleeps the snake	F
Now o'er the violet's azure flush	G2
He skips along in lightsome mood	B
And now he thrids the bramble bush	H2
Till its points are dyed in fairy blood	B
He has leapt the bog he has pierced the briar	Q
He has swum the brook and waded the mire	I2
Till his spirits sank and his limbs grew weak	J2
And the red waxed fainter in his cheek	J2
He had fallen to the ground outright	B
For rugged and dim was his onward track	G
But there came a spotted toad in sight	B
And he laughed as he jumped upon her back	G
He bridled her mouth with a silk weed twist	B
He lashed her sides with an osier thong	K2
And now through evening's dewy mist	B
With leap and spring they bound along	K2
Till the mountain's magic verge is past	B
And the beach of sand is reached at last	B
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XI	A
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Soft and pale is the moony beam	H
Moveless still the glassy stream	H
The wave is clear the beach is bright	B
With snowy shells and sparkling stones	B2
The shore surge comes in ripples light	B
In murmurings faint and distant moans	B2
And ever afar in the silence deep	L2
Is heard the splash of the sturgeon's leap	L2
And the bend of his graceful bow is seen	O
A glittering arch of silver sheen	O
Spanning the wave of burnished blue	B
And dripping with gems of the river dew	B
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XII	B2
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The elfin cast a glance around	B
As he lighted down from his courser toad	B
Then round his breast his wings he wound	B
And close to the river's brink he strode	B
He sprang on a rock he breathed a prayer	U
Above his head his arms he threw	B
Then tossed a tiny curve in air	U
And headlong plunged in the waters blue	B
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XIII	B2
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Up sprung the spirits of the waves	B2
From sea silk beds in their coral caves	B2
With snail plate armour snatched in haste	B
They speed their way through the liquid waste	B
Some are ra	M2