On Midsummer Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFFFFG H IIJJKKLLMMMMMK H KKKKNNOOKPPQQK R FFKKKKRRSSSSSK R MMMRKKTUPPPPPK| All the poppies in their beds | A |
| Nodding crumpled crimson heads | A |
| And the larkspurs in whose ears | B |
| Twilight hangs like twinkling tears | C |
| Sleepy jewels of the rain | D |
| All the violets that strain | D |
| Eyes of amethystine gleam | E |
| And the clover blooms that dream | E |
| With pink baby fists closed tight | F |
| They can hear upon this night | F |
| Noiseless as the moon's white light | F |
| Footsteps and the glimmering flight | F |
| Shimmering flight | F |
| Of the Fairies | G |
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| II | H |
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| Every sturdy four o'clock | I |
| In its variegated frock | I |
| Every slender sweet pea too | J |
| In its hood of pearly hue | J |
| Every primrose pale that dozes | K |
| By the wall and slow uncloses | K |
| A sweet mouth of dewy dawn | L |
| In a little silken yawn | L |
| On this night of silvery sheen | M |
| They can see the Fairy Queen | M |
| On her palfrey white I ween | M |
| Tread dim cirques of haunted green | M |
| Moonlit green | M |
| With her Fairies | K |
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| III | H |
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| Never a foxglove bell you see | K |
| That's a cradle for a bee | K |
| Never a lily that 's a house | K |
| Where the butterfly may drowse | K |
| Never a rosebud or a blossom | N |
| That unfolds its honeyed bosom | N |
| To the moth that nestles deep | O |
| And there sucks itself to sleep | O |
| But can hear and also see | K |
| On this night of witchery | P |
| All that world of Faery | P |
| All that world where airily | Q |
| Merrily | Q |
| Dance the Fairies | K |
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| IV | R |
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| It was last Midsummer Night | F |
| In the moon's uncertain light | F |
| That I stood among the flowers | K |
| And in language unlike ours | K |
| Heard them speaking of the Pixies | K |
| Trolls and Gnomes and Water Nixies | K |
| How in this flow'r's ear a Fay | R |
| Hung a gem of rainy ray | R |
| And 'round that flow'r's throat had set | S |
| Dim a dewdropp carcanet | S |
| Then among the mignonette | S |
| Stretched a cobweb hammock wet | S |
| Dewy wet | S |
| For the Fairies | K |
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| V | R |
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| Long I watched but never a one | M |
| Ariel Puck or Oberon | M |
| Mab or Queen Titania | M |
| Fairest of them all they say | R |
| Clad in morning glory hues | K |
| Did I glimpse among the dews | K |
| Only once I thought the torch | T |
| Of that elfin rogue and arch | U |
| Robin Goodfellow afar | P |
| Flashed along a woodland bar | P |
| Bright a jack o' lantern star | P |
| A green lamp of firefly spar | P |
| Glow worm spar | P |
| Loved of Fairies | K |
Madison Julius Cawein
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