Elfin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAAB C DEDDDE C FGFFFG H IJIIIJ| When wildflower blue and wildflower white | A |
| The wildflowers lay their heads together | B |
| And the moon moth glimmers along the night | A |
| And the wandering firefly flares its light | A |
| And the full moon rises broad and bright | A |
| Then then it is elfin weather | B |
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| II | C |
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| And fern and flower on top of the hill | D |
| Are a fairy wood where the fairies camp | E |
| And there to the pipe of the cricket shrill | D |
| And the owl's bassoon or the whippoorwill | D |
| They whirl their wildest and trip their fill | D |
| By the light of the glowworm's lamp | E |
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| III | C |
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| And the green tree toad and the katydid | F |
| Are the henchmen set to guard their dance | G |
| At whose cry they creep 'neath the dewy lid | F |
| Of a violet's eye or close lie hid | F |
| In a bluebell's ear if a mortal 'mid | F |
| The moonlit woods should chance | G |
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| IV | H |
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| And the forest fly with its gossamer wings | I |
| And filmy body of rainbow dye | J |
| Is the ouphen steed each elfin brings | I |
| Whereon by the light of the stars he swings | I |
| When the dance is done and the barn cock sings | I |
| And the dim dawn streaks the sky | J |
Madison Julius Cawein
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