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 ULUPLU

When in the pansy purpled stainA
Of sunset one far star is seenB
Like some bright dropp of rainA
Out of the forest deep and greenB
O'er me at Spirit seems to leanB
The fairest of her trainA
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IIC
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The Spirit dowered with fadeless youthD
Of Lay and Legend young as whenE
Close to her side in soothD
She led me from the marts of menE
A child into her world which thenE
To me was true as truthD
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IIIC
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Her hair is like the silken huskF
That holds the corn and glints and glowsG
Her brow is white as tuskF
Her body like a wilding roseG
And through her gossamer raiment showsG
Like starlight closed in muskF
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IVH
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She smiles at me she nods at meI
And by her looks I am beguiledJ
Into the mysteryI
Of ways I knew when as a childJ
She led me 'mid her blossoms wildJ
Of faery fantasyI
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VI
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The blossoms that when night is hereK
Become sweet mouths that sigh soft talesL
Or each a jewelled earK
Leaned to the elfin dance that trailsL
Down moonrayed cirques of haunted valesL
To cricket song and cheerM
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VIH
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The blossoms that shut fast all dayN
Primrose and poppy darkness opesL
Slowly to free a fayN
Who silken soft leaps forth and ropesL
With rain each web that starlit slopesL
Between each grassy sprayN
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VIIN
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The blossoms from which elves are bornO
Sweet wombs of mingled scent and snowP
Whose deeps are cool as mornO
Wherein I oft have heard them blowP
Their pixy trumpets silvery lowP
As some bee's drowsy hornO
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VIIIN
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So was it when my childhood roamedQ
The woodland's dim enchanted groundR
Where every mushroom domedQ
Its disc for them to revel 'roundR
Each glow worm forged its flame green drownedR
In hollow snow that foamedR
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IXL
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Of lilies for their lantern lightR
To lamp their dance beneath the moonS
Each insect of the nightR
That rasped its thin vibrating tuneS
And owl that raised its sleepy croonS
Made music for their flightR
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XL
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So is it still when twilight fillsL
My soul with childhood's memoriesL
That haunt the far off hillsL
And people with dim things the treesL
With faery forms that no man seesL
And dreams that no man killsL
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XIL
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Then all around me sway and swingT
The Puck lights of their firefly trainA
Their elfin revellingT
And in the bursting pods that rainA
Their seeds around my steps againE
I hear their footsteps ringT
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XIIL
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Their faery feet that fall once moreU
Within my way and then I seeL
As oft I saw beforeU
Her Spirit rise who shimmeringlyP
Fills all my world with poetryL
The Loveliness of YoreU

Madison Julius Cawein



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