The Wife From Fairyland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH GJDK LGJG MHNH OPQP QLRL QSTS QUVU WEFE PXDX DYZY| Her talk was all of woodland things | A |
| Of little lives that pass | B |
| Away in one green afternoon | C |
| Deep in the haunted grass | B |
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| For she had come from fairyland | D |
| The morning of a day | E |
| When the world that still was April | F |
| Was turning into May | E |
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| Green leaves and silence and two eyes | G |
| 'T was so she seemed to me | H |
| A silver shadow of the woods | I |
| Whisper and mystery | H |
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| I looked into her woodland eyes | G |
| And all my heart was hers | J |
| And then I led her by the hand | D |
| Home up my marble stairs | K |
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| And all my granite and my gold | L |
| Was hers for her green eyes | G |
| And all my sinful heart was hers | J |
| From sunset to sunrise | G |
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| I gave her all delight and ease | M |
| That God had given to me | H |
| I listened to fulfill her dreams | N |
| Rapt with expectancy | H |
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| But all I gave and all I did | O |
| Brought but a weary smile | P |
| Of gratitude upon her face | Q |
| As though a little while | P |
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| She loitered in magnificence | Q |
| Of marble and of gold | L |
| And waited to be home again | R |
| When the dull tale was told | L |
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| Sometimes in the chill galleries | Q |
| Unseen she deemed unheard | S |
| I found her dancing like a leaf | T |
| And singing like a bird | S |
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| So lone a thing I never saw | Q |
| In lonely earth or sky | U |
| So merry and so sad a thing | V |
| One sad one laughing eye | U |
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| There came a day when on her heart | W |
| A wildwood blossom lay | E |
| And the world that still was April | F |
| Was turning into May | E |
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| In the green eyes I saw a smile | P |
| That turned my heart to stone | X |
| My wife that came from fairyland | D |
| No longer was alone | X |
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| For there had come a little hand | D |
| To show the green way home | Y |
| Home through the leaves home through the dew | Z |
| Home through the greenwood home | Y |
Richard Le Gallienne
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