Fairy Tale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHGH DGDG IGJG KGLG MGGG NOGO GPAD IGQG MBGR DGMG MGMG QSPS| Now this is the story of Olaf | A |
| Who ages and ages ago | B |
| Lived right on the top of a mountain | C |
| A mountain all covered with snow | B |
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| And he was quite pretty and tiny | D |
| With beautiful curling fair hair | E |
| And small hands like delicate flowers | F |
| Cheeks kissed by the cold mountain air | E |
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| He lived in a hut made of pinewood | G |
| Just one little room and a door | H |
| A table a chair and a bedstead | G |
| And animal skins on the floor | H |
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| Now Olaf was partly fairy | D |
| And so never wanted to eat | G |
| He thought dewdrops and raindrops were plenty | D |
| And snowflakes and all perfumes sweet | G |
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| In the daytime when sweeping and dusting | I |
| And cleaning were quite at an end | G |
| He would sit very still on the doorstep | J |
| And dream O that he had a friend | G |
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| Somebody to come when he called them | K |
| Somebody to catch by the hand | G |
| Somebody to sleep with at night time | L |
| Somebody who'd quite understand | G |
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| One night in the middle of Winter | M |
| He lay wide awake on his bed | G |
| Outside there was fury of tempest | G |
| And calling of wolves to be fed | G |
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| Thin wolves grey and silent as shadows | N |
| And Olaf was frightened to death | O |
| He had peeped through a crack in the doorpost | G |
| He had seen the white smoke of their breath | O |
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| But suddenly over the storm wind | G |
| He heard a small voice pleadingly | P |
| Cry I am a snow fairy Olaf | A |
| Unfasten the window for me | D |
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| So he did and there flew through the opening | I |
| The daintiest prettiest sprite | G |
| Her face and her dress and her stockings | Q |
| Her hands and her curls were all white | G |
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| And she said O you poor little stranger | M |
| Before I am melted you know | B |
| I have brought you a valuable present | G |
| A little brown fiddle and bow | R |
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| So now you can never be lonely | D |
| With a fiddle you see for a friend | G |
| But all through the Summer and Winter | M |
| Play beautiful songs without end | G |
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| And then O she melted like water | M |
| But Olaf was happy at last | G |
| The fiddle he tucked in his shoulder | M |
| He held his small bow very fast | G |
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| So perhaps on the quietest of evenings | Q |
| If you listen you may hear him soon | S |
| The child who is playing the fiddle | P |
| Away up in the cold lonely moon | S |
Katherine Mansfield
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