On Midsummer Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFFFFG H IIJJKKLLMMMMMK H KKKKNNOOKPPQQK R FFKKKKRRSSSSSK R MMMRKKTUPPPPPKAll 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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