Armorel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACADDCECCF GHHIGI JKKCHCC LMLMNONOHPPHHH| WHEN within the rippling tide | A |
| Shakes the silver pointed moon | B |
| When the rainbow flies of noon | B |
| All have died | A |
| When the bats go wheeling far | C |
| And the mournful owl has cried | A |
| Twice or thrice a down the glen | D |
| Gray with gathering shade and when | D |
| Gates o' dream are held ajar | C |
| From the alders in the dell | E |
| From the bracken fronds astir | C |
| Elfin voices call to her | C |
| 'Armorel ' | F |
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| She shall glide the garden down | G |
| Treading softly treading slow | H |
| And with silent feet shall go | H |
| Past the Mary lilies white | I |
| Past the pansies gold and brown | G |
| Grown for her delight | I |
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| One white moth her guide shall be | J |
| She shall follow where he flies | K |
| Patiently with dream lit eyes | K |
| Past the thyme and savoury | C |
| Past the mystic asphodel | H |
| For the voices in her ear | C |
| Call her softly call her clear | C |
| 'Armorel ' | - |
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| Into valleys strange and dim | L |
| All unseen and all unknown | M |
| Fleetly shall she follow him | L |
| Fairy led alone | M |
| She shall hear within the brake | N |
| Elfin crickets pipe and sing | O |
| While the elfin spiders make | N |
| Sendal for her furnishing | O |
| Red as pimpernel | H |
| She shall see the dreams go by | P |
| Silver pinioned through the sky | P |
| Where she wanders none may tell | H |
| But the voices come and go | H |
| Calling sweetly calling low | H |
| 'Armorel ' | - |
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall
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