The World Of Faery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBA C DEDEED C FGFGGF H IJIJJI I KLKLLM H NLNLLN N OPOPPO N QRQRRR L RSRSSR L LLLLLL L TATAET L ULUPLUWhen in the pansy purpled stain | A |
Of sunset one far star is seen | B |
Like some bright dropp of rain | A |
Out of the forest deep and green | B |
O'er me at Spirit seems to lean | B |
The fairest of her train | A |
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II | C |
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The Spirit dowered with fadeless youth | D |
Of Lay and Legend young as when | E |
Close to her side in sooth | D |
She led me from the marts of men | E |
A child into her world which then | E |
To me was true as truth | D |
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III | C |
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Her hair is like the silken husk | F |
That holds the corn and glints and glows | G |
Her brow is white as tusk | F |
Her body like a wilding rose | G |
And through her gossamer raiment shows | G |
Like starlight closed in musk | F |
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IV | H |
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She smiles at me she nods at me | I |
And by her looks I am beguiled | J |
Into the mystery | I |
Of ways I knew when as a child | J |
She led me 'mid her blossoms wild | J |
Of faery fantasy | I |
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V | I |
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The blossoms that when night is here | K |
Become sweet mouths that sigh soft tales | L |
Or each a jewelled ear | K |
Leaned to the elfin dance that trails | L |
Down moonrayed cirques of haunted vales | L |
To cricket song and cheer | M |
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VI | H |
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The blossoms that shut fast all day | N |
Primrose and poppy darkness opes | L |
Slowly to free a fay | N |
Who silken soft leaps forth and ropes | L |
With rain each web that starlit slopes | L |
Between each grassy spray | N |
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VII | N |
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The blossoms from which elves are born | O |
Sweet wombs of mingled scent and snow | P |
Whose deeps are cool as morn | O |
Wherein I oft have heard them blow | P |
Their pixy trumpets silvery low | P |
As some bee's drowsy horn | O |
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VIII | N |
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So was it when my childhood roamed | Q |
The woodland's dim enchanted ground | R |
Where every mushroom domed | Q |
Its disc for them to revel 'round | R |
Each glow worm forged its flame green drowned | R |
In hollow snow that foamed | R |
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IX | L |
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Of lilies for their lantern light | R |
To lamp their dance beneath the moon | S |
Each insect of the night | R |
That rasped its thin vibrating tune | S |
And owl that raised its sleepy croon | S |
Made music for their flight | R |
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X | L |
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So is it still when twilight fills | L |
My soul with childhood's memories | L |
That haunt the far off hills | L |
And people with dim things the trees | L |
With faery forms that no man sees | L |
And dreams that no man kills | L |
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XI | L |
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Then all around me sway and swing | T |
The Puck lights of their firefly train | A |
Their elfin revelling | T |
And in the bursting pods that rain | A |
Their seeds around my steps again | E |
I hear their footsteps ring | T |
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XII | L |
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Their faery feet that fall once more | U |
Within my way and then I see | L |
As oft I saw before | U |
Her Spirit rise who shimmeringly | P |
Fills all my world with poetry | L |
The Loveliness of Yore | U |
Madison Julius Cawein
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