Unmasked Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCDCDEEFEFEEFGEG EHHBBHIIIJJEEKKHHLHH LMMLLEENNOOPPOOHHLLH PHPIPI| Was 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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