Oberon's Feast Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGHHCCIGHH HHDDGGJJGGKKLLMMIIHH NNGGOODDHHPPHH

Hapcot To thee the Fairy StateA
I with discretion dedicateA
Because thou prizest things that areB
Curious and un familiarC
Take first the feast these dishes goneD
We'll see the Fairy Court anonD
A little mushroon table spreadE
After short prayers they set on breadE
A moon parched grain of purest wheatF
With some small glit'ring grit to eatF
His choice bits with then in a triceG
They make a feast less great than niceG
But all this while his eye is serv'dH
We must not think his ear was sterv'dH
But that there was in place to stirC
His spleen the chirring grasshopperC
The merry cricket the puling flyI
The piping gnat for minstralcyG
And now we must imagine firstH
The elves present to quench his thirstH
A pure seed pearl of infant dewH
Brought and besweetened in a blueH
And pregnant violet which doneD
His kitling eyes begin to runD
Quite through the table where he spiesG
The horns of papery butterfliesG
Of which he eats and tastes a littleJ
Of that we call the cuckoo's spittleJ
A little fuzz ball pudding standsG
By yet not blessed by his handsG
That was too coarse but then forthwithK
He ventures boldly on the pithK
Of sugar'd rush and eats the sagL
And well bestrutted bee's sweet bagL
Gladding his palate with some storeM
Of emit's eggs what would he moreM
But beards of mice a newt's stew'd thighI
A bloated earwig and a flyI
With the red capp'd worm that's shutH
Within the concave of a nutH
Brown as his tooth a little mothN
Late fatten'd in a piece of clothN
With wither'd cherries mandrake's earsG
Mole's eyes to these the slain stag's tearsG
The unctuous dewlaps of a snailO
The broke heart of a nightingaleO
O'er come in music with a wineD
Ne'er ravish'd from the flattering vineD
But gently press'd from the soft sideH
Of the most sweet and dainty brideH
Brought in a dainty daisy whichP
He fully quaffs up to bewitchP
His blood to height this done commendedH
Grace by his priest the feast is endedH

Robert Herrick



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