The Thracian Stone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEDEFGFGHIHJKLK LMNMN| 'The faieries gave him the propertie of the Thracian stone for who toucheth it is exempted from griefe ' | A |
| The fairies to his cradle came to play their fairy part | B |
| Their footsteps like the laughter of a leaf | C |
| They touched him with the Thracian stone that setteth free the heart | B |
| O dream enchanted singing heart forever free from grief | C |
| The wind it could not blow a way that failed to please him well | D |
| Beyond the rain he saw the March skies blue | E |
| With hope of April violets he cast his fairy spell | D |
| Over our flawed and tarnished world creating all things new | E |
| He bore the burden of his day the burden and the heat | F |
| As blithely as a seagull breasts the gale | G |
| Glorying that God should trust his strength The color of ripe wheat | F |
| Was on his life when it was flung beneath pain's threshing flail | G |
| He fronted that grim challenge like some resplendent knight | H |
| Who rides against foul foes of fen and wood | I |
| With ringing song of onset his spirit hero bright | H |
| Went tilting with a sunbeam against the dragon brood | J |
| Then dusky shapes stole on him Queen of the Quaking Isle | K |
| Queens of the Land of Longing and the Waste | L |
| He bowed him to their bidding with a secret in his smile | K |
| He quaffed their bitter cups that left ambrosia on the taste | L |
| Last came the King of Terrors and lo his iron crown | M |
| Had twinkled to a silver fairy cap | N |
| Like two old friends they took the road to Love and Beauty town | M |
| That's here and there and everywhere on all the starry map | N |
Katharine Lee Bates
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