The Dryad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCABCDDC EFCCEG HICCHC BDJJBDJ KLBBKLLJBJ| My dryad hath her hiding place | A |
| Among ten thousand trees | B |
| She flies to cover | C |
| At step of a lover | C |
| And where to find her lovely face | A |
| Only the woodland bees | B |
| Ever discover | C |
| Bringing her honey | D |
| From meadows sunny | D |
| Cowslip and clover | C |
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| Vainly on beech and oak I knock | E |
| Amid the silent boughs | F |
| Then hear her laughter | C |
| The moment after | C |
| Making of me her laughing stock | E |
| Within her hidden house | G |
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| The young moon with her wand of pearl | H |
| Taps on her hidden door | I |
| Bids her beauty flower | C |
| In that woodland bower | C |
| All white like a mortal girl | H |
| With moonshine hallowed o'er | C |
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| Yet were there thrice ten thousand trees | B |
| To hide her face from me | D |
| Not all her fleeing | J |
| Should 'scape my seeing | J |
| Nor all her ambushed sorceries | B |
| Secure concealment be | D |
| For her bright being | J |
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| Yea should she by the laddered pine | K |
| Steal to the stars on high | L |
| Her fairy whiteness | B |
| Hidden in brightness | B |
| Her hiding place would so out shine | K |
| The constellated sky | L |
| She could not 'scape the eye | L |
| Of my pursuing | J |
| Nor her fawn foot lightness | B |
| Out speed my wooing | J |
Richard Le Gallienne
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