Unmasked Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCDCDEEFEFEEFGEG EHHBBHIIIJJEEKKHHLHH LMMLLEENNOOPPOOHHLLH PHPIPI

Was it a dreamA
Or a whim of the nightB
Or did they gleamA
Upon my sightB
An instant there in the wan moonlightB
I saw them all I thinkC
Under the bowersD
The faery folk in a moonbeam winkC
Disguised as flowersD
First came the Bleeding Hearts that hang like bellsE
Or delicate shellsE
Who gowned in white and redF
Hooped skirts and furbelowsE
A long procession ledF
Of Faery Ladies and their beauxE
Such as the Violet and Early RoseE
Into the ball room of the flower bedF
Where they began a Pixy minuetG
Then suddenly from whence nobody knowsE
The Johnny Jump Ups glimmered in that setG
Tipping about on tiny flower toesE
All dressed in twinkling velvet black and blueH
Faint jeweled with the dewH
Stout sons of Fa rie Yeomen of the NightB
Glittering each one a rapier ray of lightB
Then bowing two by twoH
While all the Bleeding Hearts stood by and fannedI
They silken hand in handI
Began a faery sarabandI
That wound and interwound and went and came againJ
And thenJ
In ruffed and ribboned linesE
The gold and ruby gleaming ColumbinesE
Fair Maids of Honor to the Faery QueenK
Who still remained unseenK
Trailed twinkling into viewH
And then a trumpet blewH
A beetle blast and thereL
Adown a glowworm lanthorned avenueH
Tall two by twoH
With sapphire helm d hairL
Proud Knights and minions of the moonM
The Larkspurs to a cricket tuneM
Marched with a haughty airL
And golden cuirassed blowing a wild fanfareL
Of fragrant notesE
From honey crystaled throatsE
Snapdragons Trumpeters of the Faery KingN
With pomp and glitteringN
Of many an elfin prince and peerO
Drew nearO
And when I felt secureP
And sureP
The King and Queen of Faerie would appearO
My dearO
A cockerel crew a thwarting cockerel crewH
And presto whewH
The whole scene went in airL
Leaving it thereL
The garden glimmering with the moon and dewH
Looking demureP
With all its flowers But I knewH
Nay I was sureP
It was not quite as innocent as it seemedI
It could not fool me with its looks demureP
I knew I had not dreamedI

Madison Julius Cawein



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