A Fairy Tale In The Ancient English Style Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDEEFGGFHHDIIDJJ KLLKMMNOPNQQRRRRSTPU UPRRQPPQRRRRRRVVRRRR FWRNNRRRNPPNXXNRRNRR YVVZA2A2PB2B2PRRC2D2 D2C2PPNVVNVVE2RRE2VR QPPQPPPRRPPPRCCRRRNF 2F2NVVVQQVE2E2RTTVCC RRRRQQE2VVE2YZD2G2G2 D2PPRVVRH2H2RRRRVVYR RYRRNPPNPPRRRRIn Britain's Isle and Arthur's days | A |
When Midnight Faeries daunc'd the Maze | A |
Liv'd Edwin of the Green | B |
Edwin I wis a gentle Youth | C |
Endow'd with Courage Sense and Truth | C |
Tho' badly Shap'd he been | D |
His Mountain Back mote well be said | E |
To measure heigth against his Head | E |
And lift it self above | F |
Yet spite of all that Nature did | G |
To make his uncouth Form forbid | G |
This Creature dar'd to love | F |
He felt the Charms of Edith's Eyes | H |
Nor wanted Hope to gain the Prize | H |
Cou'd Ladies took within | D |
But one Sir Topaz dress'd with Art | I |
And if a Shape cou'd win a Heart | I |
He had a Shape to win | D |
Edwin if right I read my Song | J |
With slighted Passion pac'd along | J |
All in the Moony Light | K |
'Twas near an old enchaunted Court | L |
Where sportive Faeries made Resort | L |
To revel out the Night | K |
His Heart was drear his Hope was cross'd | M |
'Twas late 'twas farr the Path was lost | M |
That reach'd the Neighbour Town | N |
With weary Steps he quits the Shades | O |
Resolv'd the darkling Dome he treads | P |
And drops his Limbs adown | N |
But scant he lays him on the Floor | Q |
When hollow Winds remove the Door | Q |
A trembling rocks the Ground | R |
And well I ween to count aright | R |
At once an hundred Tapers light | R |
On all the Walls around | R |
Now sounding Tongues assail his Ear | S |
Now sounding Feet approachen near | T |
And now the Sounds encrease | P |
And from the Corner where he lay | U |
He sees a Train profusely gay | U |
Come pranckling o'er the Place | P |
But trust me Gentles never yet | R |
Was dight a Masquing half so neat | R |
Or half so rich before | Q |
The Country lent the sweet Perfumes | P |
The Sea the Pearl the Sky the Plumes | P |
The Town its silken Store | Q |
Now whilst he gaz'd a Gallant drest | R |
In flaunting Robes above the rest | R |
With awfull Accent cry'd | R |
What Mortall of a wretched Mind | R |
Whose Sighs infect the balmy Wind | R |
Has here presum'd to hide | R |
At this the Swain whose vent'rous Soul | V |
No Fears of Magick Art controul | V |
Advanc'd in open sight | R |
Nor have I Cause of Dreed he said | R |
Who view by no Presumption led | R |
Your Revels of the Night | R |
'Twas Grief for Scorn of faithful Love | F |
Which made my Steps unweeting rove | W |
Amid the nightly Dew | R |
'Tis well the Gallant crys again | N |
We Faeries never injure Men | N |
Who dare to tell us true | R |
Exalt thy Love dejected Heart | R |
Be mine the Task or e'er we part | R |
To make thee Grief resign | N |
Now take the Pleasure of thy Chaunce | P |
Whilst I with Mab my part'ner daunce | P |
Be little Mable thine | N |
He spoke and all a sudden there | X |
Light Musick floats in wanton Air | X |
The Monarch leads the Queen | N |
The rest their Faerie Partners found | R |
And Mable trimly tript the Ground | R |
With Edwin of the Green | N |
The Dauncing past the Board was laid | R |
And siker such a Feast was made | R |
As Heart and Lip desire | Y |
Withouten Hands the Dishes fly | V |
The Glasses with a Wish come nigh | V |
And with a Wish retire | Z |
But now to please the Faerie King | A2 |
Full ev'ry deal they laugh and sing | A2 |
And antick Feats devise | P |
Some wind and tumble like an Ape | B2 |
And other some transmute their Shape | B2 |
In Edwin's wond'ring Eyes | P |
'Till one at last that Robin hight | R |
Renown'd for pinching Maids by Night | R |
Has hent him up aloof | C2 |
And full against the Beam he flung | D2 |
Where by the Back the Youth he hung | D2 |
To spraul unneath the Roof | C2 |
From thence 'Reverse my Charm he crys | P |
'And let it fairely now suffice | P |
'The Gambol has been shown | N |
But Oberon answers with a Smile | V |
Content thee Edwin for a while | V |
The Vantage is thine own | N |
Here ended all the Phantome play | V |
They smelt the fresh Approach of Day | V |
And heard a Cock to crow | E2 |
The whirling Wind that bore the Crowd | R |
Has clap'd the Door and whistled loud | R |
To warn them all to go | E2 |
Then screaming all at once they fly | V |
And all at once the Tapers dy | R |
Poor Edwin falls to Floor | Q |
Forlorn his State and dark the Place | P |
Was never Wight in sike a Case | P |
Through all the Land before | Q |
But soon as Dan Apollo rose | P |
Full Jolly Creature home he goes | P |
He feels his Back the less | P |
His honest Tongue and steady Mind | R |
Han rid him of the Lump behind | R |
Which made him want Success | P |
With lusty livelyhed he talks | P |
He seems a dauncing as he walks | P |
His Story soon took wind | R |
And beautious Edith sees the Youth | C |
Endow'd with Courage Sense and Truth | C |
Without a Bunch behind | R |
The Story told Sir Topaz mov'd | R |
The Youth of Edith erst approv'd | R |
To see the Revel Scene | N |
At close of Eve he leaves his home | F2 |
And wends to find the ruin'd Dome | F2 |
All on the gloomy Plain | N |
As there he bides it so befell | V |
The Wind came rustling down a Dell | V |
A shaking seiz'd the Wall | V |
Up spring the Tapers as before | Q |
The Faeries bragly foot the Floor | Q |
And Musick fills the Hall | V |
But certes sorely sunk with woe | E2 |
Sir Topaz sees the Elphin show | E2 |
His Spirits in him dy | R |
When Oberon crys a Man is near | T |
A mortall Passion cleeped Fear | T |
Hangs flagging in the Sky | V |
With that Sir Topaz Hapless Youth | C |
In Accents fault'ring ay for Ruth | C |
Intreats them Pity graunt | R |
For als he been a mister Wight | R |
Betray'd by wand'ring in the Night | R |
To tread the circled Haunt | R |
Ah Losell Vile at once they roar | Q |
And little skill'd of Faerie lore | Q |
Thy Cause to come we know | E2 |
Now has thy Kestrell Courage fell | V |
And Faeries since a Ly you tell | V |
Are free to work thee Woe | E2 |
Then Will who bears the wispy Fire | Y |
To trail the Swains among the Mire | Z |
The Caitive upward flung | D2 |
There like a Tortoise in a Shop | G2 |
He dangled from the Chamber top | G2 |
Where whilome Edwin hung | D2 |
The Revel now proceeds apace | P |
Deffly they frisk it o'er the Place | P |
They sit they drink and eat | R |
The time with frolick Mirth beguile | V |
And poor Sir Topaz hangs the while | V |
'Till all the Rout retreat | R |
By this the Starrs began to wink | H2 |
They skriek they fly the Tapers sink | H2 |
And down ydrops the Knight | R |
For never Spell by Faerie laid | R |
With strong Enchantment bound a Glade | R |
Beyond the length of Night | R |
Chill dark alone adreed he lay | V |
'Till up the Welkin rose the Day | V |
Then deem'd the Dole was o'er | Y |
But wot ye well his harder Lot | R |
His seely Back the Bunch has got | R |
Which Edwin lost afore | Y |
This Tale a Sybil Nurse ared | R |
She softly strok'd my youngling Head | R |
And when the Tale was done | N |
Thus some are born my Son she cries | P |
With base Impediments to rise | P |
And some are born with none | N |
But Virtue can it self advance | P |
To what the Fav'rite Fools of Chance | P |
By Fortune seem'd design'd | R |
Virtue can gain the Odds of Fate | R |
And from it self shake off the Weight | R |
Upon th' unworthy Mind | R |
Thomas Parnell
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