The Changeling Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBD A BEFBG A BHHHH HFHHF H HIHHI HHHHH HHHHH HHHHH| I | A |
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| There were Fa ries two or three | B |
| And a high moon white as wool | C |
| Or a bloom in Fa ry | B |
| Where the star thick blossoms be | B |
| Star like beautiful | D |
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| II | A |
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| There were Fa ries two or three | B |
| And a wind as fragrant as | E |
| Spicy wafts from Arcady | F |
| Rocked the sleeping honey bee | B |
| In the clover grass | G |
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| III | A |
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| There were Fa ries two or three | B |
| Wee white caps and red wee shoon | H |
| Buckles at each dainty knee | H |
| We are come to comfort thee | H |
| With the silver moon | H |
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| IV | - |
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| There were Fa ries two or three | H |
| Buttercups brimmed up with dew | F |
| Winning faces sweet to see | H |
| Then mine eyes closed heavily | H |
| Fa ries what would you | F |
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| V | H |
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| There were Fa ries two or three | H |
| And my babe was dreaming deep | I |
| White as whitest ivory | H |
| In its crib of ebony | H |
| Rocked and crooned on sleep | I |
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| VI | - |
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| There were Fa ries two or three | H |
| Standing in the mocking moon | H |
| And mine eyes closed drowsily | H |
| Drowsily and suddenly | H |
| There my babe was gone | H |
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| VII | - |
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| Now no Fa ries two or three | H |
| Loitered in the moon alone | H |
| Jesu Marie comfort me | H |
| What is this instead I see | H |
| Ugly skin and bone | H |
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| VIII | - |
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| There were Fa ries two or three | H |
| Stood with buckles on red shoon | H |
| But with evil sorcery | H |
| My sweet babe to Fa ry | H |
| They did steal right soon | H |
Madison Julius Cawein
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