The Discovery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACC ADEED FFGF HHFF GGGIG AAJJ| These are the days of elfs and fays | A |
| Who says that with the dreams of myth | B |
| These imps and elves disport themselves | A |
| Ah no along the paths of song | C |
| Do all the tiny folk belong | C |
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| Round all our homes | A |
| Kobolds and gnomes do daily cling | D |
| Then nightly fling their lanterns out | E |
| And shout on shout they join the rout | E |
| And sing and sing within the sweet enchanted ring | D |
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| Where gleamed the guile of moonlight's smile | F |
| Once paused I listening for a while | F |
| And heard the lay unknown by day | G |
| The fairies' dancing roundelay | F |
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| Queen Mab was there her shimmering hair | H |
| Each fairy prince's heart's despair | H |
| She smiled to see their sparkling glee | F |
| And once I ween she smiled at me | F |
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| Since when you may by night or day | G |
| Dispute the sway of elf folk gay | G |
| But hear me stay | G |
| I've learned the way to find Queen | I |
| Mab and elf and fay | G |
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| Where e'er by streams the moonlight gleams | A |
| Or on a meadow softly beams | A |
| There footing round on dew lit ground | J |
| The fairy folk may all be found | J |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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