On Midsummer Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFFFFG H IIJJKKLLMMMMMK H KKKKNNOOKPPQQK R FFKKKKRRSSSSSK R MMMRKKTUPPPPPK

All the poppies in their bedsA
Nodding crumpled crimson headsA
And the larkspurs in whose earsB
Twilight hangs like twinkling tearsC
Sleepy jewels of the rainD
All the violets that strainD
Eyes of amethystine gleamE
And the clover blooms that dreamE
With pink baby fists closed tightF
They can hear upon this nightF
Noiseless as the moon's white lightF
Footsteps and the glimmering flightF
Shimmering flightF
Of the FairiesG
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IIH
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Every sturdy four o'clockI
In its variegated frockI
Every slender sweet pea tooJ
In its hood of pearly hueJ
Every primrose pale that dozesK
By the wall and slow unclosesK
A sweet mouth of dewy dawnL
In a little silken yawnL
On this night of silvery sheenM
They can see the Fairy QueenM
On her palfrey white I weenM
Tread dim cirques of haunted greenM
Moonlit greenM
With her FairiesK
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IIIH
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Never a foxglove bell you seeK
That's a cradle for a beeK
Never a lily that 's a houseK
Where the butterfly may drowseK
Never a rosebud or a blossomN
That unfolds its honeyed bosomN
To the moth that nestles deepO
And there sucks itself to sleepO
But can hear and also seeK
On this night of witcheryP
All that world of FaeryP
All that world where airilyQ
MerrilyQ
Dance the FairiesK
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IVR
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It was last Midsummer NightF
In the moon's uncertain lightF
That I stood among the flowersK
And in language unlike oursK
Heard them speaking of the PixiesK
Trolls and Gnomes and Water NixiesK
How in this flow'r's ear a FayR
Hung a gem of rainy rayR
And 'round that flow'r's throat had setS
Dim a dewdropp carcanetS
Then among the mignonetteS
Stretched a cobweb hammock wetS
Dewy wetS
For the FairiesK
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VR
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Long I watched but never a oneM
Ariel Puck or OberonM
Mab or Queen TitaniaM
Fairest of them all they sayR
Clad in morning glory huesK
Did I glimpse among the dewsK
Only once I thought the torchT
Of that elfin rogue and archU
Robin Goodfellow afarP
Flashed along a woodland barP
Bright a jack o' lantern starP
A green lamp of firefly sparP
Glow worm sparP
Loved of FairiesK

Madison Julius Cawein



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