The Fairy Rade Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC A EFEF A GHGI J KLKL J KMKM J NOPO J QRQR J SRSR Q ETET Q USUS Q VRVR Q WJWJ| I | A |
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| Ai me why stood I on the bent | B |
| When Summer wept o'er dying June | C |
| I saw the Fairy Folk ride faint | D |
| Aneath the moon | C |
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| II | A |
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| The haw trees hedged the russet lea | E |
| Where cuckoo buds waxed rich with gold | F |
| The wealthy corn rose yellowly | E |
| Endlong the wold | F |
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| III | A |
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| Betwixt the haw trees and the mead | G |
| The Fairy Rade came glimmering on | H |
| A creamy cavalcade did speed | G |
| O'er the green lawn | I |
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| IV | J |
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| The night was ringing with their reins | K |
| Loud laughed they till the cricket hushed | L |
| The whistles on their coursers' manes | K |
| Shrill music gushed | L |
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| V | J |
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| The whistles tagged their horses' manes | K |
| All crystal clear on these a wind | M |
| Forever played and waked the plains | K |
| Before behind | M |
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| VI | J |
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| These flute notes and the Fairy song | N |
| Took the dim holts with many a qualm | O |
| And eke their silver bridles rung | P |
| A far off psalm | O |
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| VII | J |
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| All rid upon pale ouphen steeds | Q |
| With flying tails uncouthly seen | R |
| Each wore a scarf athwart his weeds | Q |
| Of freshest green | R |
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| VIII | J |
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| And aye a beam of silver light | S |
| Fairer than moonshine danced aboon | R |
| And shook their locks a glimmering white | S |
| Not of the moon | R |
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| IX | Q |
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| Small were they that the hare bell's blue | E |
| Had helmeted each tiny head | T |
| Save one damsel who tall as two | E |
| The Faeries led | T |
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| X | Q |
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| Long tresses floated from a tire | U |
| Of diamond sparks which cast a light | S |
| And o'er her white sark shook in fire | U |
| Rippling the night | S |
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| XI | Q |
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| I would have thrown me 'neath her feet | V |
| And told her all my dole and pain | R |
| There while her rein was jingling sweet | V |
| O'er all the plain | R |
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| XII | Q |
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| Alas a black and thwarting cock | W |
| Crew from the thatch with long necked cry | J |
| The Elfin queen and her wee flock | W |
| In the night did die | J |
Madison Julius Cawein
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