Fancy And The Poet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDD E FGFGHI JKJKGG LBLBMM A NNOOPP E EQEQEE RSRSTT UVUVWW| POET | A |
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| Enchanting spirit at thy votive shrine | B |
| I lowly bend one simple wreath to twine | B |
| O come from thy ideal world and fling | C |
| Thy airy fingers o'er my rugged string | C |
| Sweep the dark chords of thought and give to earth | D |
| The wild sweet song that tells thy heavenly birth | D |
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| FANCY | E |
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| Happiness when from earth she fled | F |
| I passed on her heaven ward flight | G |
| Take this wreath the spirit said | F |
| And bathe it in floods of light | G |
| To the sons of sorrow this token give | H |
| And bid them follow my steps and live | I |
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| I took the wreath from her radiant hand | J |
| Each flower was a silver star | K |
| I turned this dark earth to a fairy land | J |
| When I hither drove my car | K |
| But I wove the wreath round my tresses bright | G |
| And man only saw its reflected light | G |
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| Many a lovely dream I've given | L |
| And many a song divine | B |
| But never oh never that wreath from heaven | L |
| Shall mortal temples twine | B |
| Hope and love in the chaplet glow | M |
| 'Tis all too bright for a world of woe | M |
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| POET | A |
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| Hist Beautiful spirit why silent so soon | N |
| My soul drinks each word of thy magical tune | N |
| My lyre owns thy touch and its tremulous strings | O |
| Still vibrate beneath the soft play of thy wings | O |
| Resume thy sweet lay and reveal ere we part | P |
| Thy home lovely spirit and say what thou art | P |
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| FANCY | E |
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| The gleam of a star which thou canst not see | E |
| Or an eye 'neath its sleeping lid | Q |
| The tune of a far off melody | E |
| The voice of a stream that's hid | Q |
| Such must I still remain to thee | E |
| A wonder and a mystery | E |
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| I live in the poet's dream | R |
| I flash on the painter's eye | S |
| I dwell in the moon's pale beam | R |
| In the depths of the star lit sky | S |
| I traverse the earth the air the main | T |
| And bind young hearts in my golden chain | T |
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| I float on the crimson cloud | U |
| My voice is in every breeze | V |
| I speak in the tempest loud | U |
| In the sigh of the wind stirred trees | V |
| To the sons of earth in a magic tone | W |
| I tell of a world more bright than their own | W |
Susanna Moodie
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