Unmasked Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCDCDEEFEFEEFGEG EHHBBHIIIJJEEKKHHLHH LMMLLEENNOOPPOOHHLLH PHPIPIWas it a dream | A |
Or a whim of the night | B |
Or did they gleam | A |
Upon my sight | B |
An instant there in the wan moonlight | B |
I saw them all I think | C |
Under the bowers | D |
The faery folk in a moonbeam wink | C |
Disguised as flowers | D |
First came the Bleeding Hearts that hang like bells | E |
Or delicate shells | E |
Who gowned in white and red | F |
Hooped skirts and furbelows | E |
A long procession led | F |
Of Faery Ladies and their beaux | E |
Such as the Violet and Early Rose | E |
Into the ball room of the flower bed | F |
Where they began a Pixy minuet | G |
Then suddenly from whence nobody knows | E |
The Johnny Jump Ups glimmered in that set | G |
Tipping about on tiny flower toes | E |
All dressed in twinkling velvet black and blue | H |
Faint jeweled with the dew | H |
Stout sons of Fa rie Yeomen of the Night | B |
Glittering each one a rapier ray of light | B |
Then bowing two by two | H |
While all the Bleeding Hearts stood by and fanned | I |
They silken hand in hand | I |
Began a faery saraband | I |
That wound and interwound and went and came again | J |
And then | J |
In ruffed and ribboned lines | E |
The gold and ruby gleaming Columbines | E |
Fair Maids of Honor to the Faery Queen | K |
Who still remained unseen | K |
Trailed twinkling into view | H |
And then a trumpet blew | H |
A beetle blast and there | L |
Adown a glowworm lanthorned avenue | H |
Tall two by two | H |
With sapphire helm d hair | L |
Proud Knights and minions of the moon | M |
The Larkspurs to a cricket tune | M |
Marched with a haughty air | L |
And golden cuirassed blowing a wild fanfare | L |
Of fragrant notes | E |
From honey crystaled throats | E |
Snapdragons Trumpeters of the Faery King | N |
With pomp and glittering | N |
Of many an elfin prince and peer | O |
Drew near | O |
And when I felt secure | P |
And sure | P |
The King and Queen of Faerie would appear | O |
My dear | O |
A cockerel crew a thwarting cockerel crew | H |
And presto whew | H |
The whole scene went in air | L |
Leaving it there | L |
The garden glimmering with the moon and dew | H |
Looking demure | P |
With all its flowers But I knew | H |
Nay I was sure | P |
It was not quite as innocent as it seemed | I |
It could not fool me with its looks demure | P |
I knew I had not dreamed | I |
Madison Julius Cawein
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