Queen Mab In The Village Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE AGHGIGGJKGLG DJGJMNONPQGQGRSRSTST UVGVSUSUUWGWCSGSSSSS UUSUUGCGGSUSCSSS XYZYGRSRSUDU GA2CA2SB2C2B2GD2SD2S SE2S| Once I loved a fairy | A |
| Queen Mab it was Her voice | B |
| Was like a little Fountain | C |
| That bids the birds rejoice | B |
| Her face was wise and solemn | D |
| Her hair was brown and fine | E |
| Her dress was pansy velvet | F |
| A butterfly design | E |
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| To see her hover round me | A |
| Or walk the hills of air | G |
| Awakened love's deep pulses | H |
| And boyhood's first despair | G |
| A passion like a sword blade | I |
| That pierced me thro' and thro' | G |
| Her fingers healed the sorrow | G |
| Her whisper would renew | J |
| We sighed and reigned and feasted | K |
| Within a hollow tree | G |
| We vowed our love was boundless | L |
| Eternal as the sea | G |
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| She banished from her kingdom | D |
| The mortal boy I grew | J |
| So tall and crude and noisy | G |
| I killed grasshoppers too | J |
| I threw big rocks at pigeons | M |
| I plucked and tore apart | N |
| The weeping wailing daisies | O |
| And broke my lady's heart | N |
| At length I grew to manhood | P |
| I scarcely could believe | Q |
| I ever loved the lady | G |
| Or caused her court to grieve | Q |
| Until a dream came to me | G |
| One bleak first night of Spring | R |
| Ere tides of apple blossoms | S |
| Rolled in o'er everything | R |
| While rain and sleet and snowbanks | S |
| Were still a vexing men | T |
| Ere robin and his comrades | S |
| Were nesting once again | T |
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| I saw Mab's Book of Judgment | U |
| Its clasps were iron and stone | V |
| Its leaves were mammoth ivory | G |
| Its boards were mammoth bone | V |
| Hid in her seaside mountains | S |
| Forgotten or unkept | U |
| Beneath its mighty covers | S |
| Her wrath against me slept | U |
| And deeply I repented | U |
| Of brash and boyish crime | W |
| Of murder of things lovely | G |
| Now and in olden time | W |
| I cursed my vain ambition | C |
| My would be worldly days | S |
| And craved the paths of wonder | G |
| Of dewy dawns and fays | S |
| I cried Our love was boundless | S |
| Eternal as the sea | S |
| O Queen reverse the sentence | S |
| Come back and master me | S |
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| The book was by the cliff side | U |
| Upon its edge upright | U |
| I laid me by it softly | S |
| And wept throughout the night | U |
| And there at dawn I saw it | U |
| No book now but a door | G |
| Upon its panels written | C |
| Judgment is no more | G |
| The bolt flew back with thunder | G |
| I saw within that place | S |
| A mermaid wrapped in seaweed | U |
| With Mab's immortal face | S |
| Yet grown now to a woman | C |
| A woman to the knee | S |
| She cried she clasped me fondly | S |
| We soon were in the sea | S |
| - | |
| Ah she was wise and subtle | X |
| And gay and strong and sleek | Y |
| We chained the wicked sword fish | Z |
| We played at hide and seek | Y |
| We floated on the water | G |
| We heard the dawn wind sing | R |
| I made from ocean wonders | S |
| Her bridal wreath and ring | R |
| All mortal girls were shadows | S |
| All earth life but a mist | U |
| When deep beneath the maelstrom | D |
| The mermaid's heart I kissed | U |
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| I woke beside the church door | G |
| Of our small inland town | A2 |
| Bowing to a maiden | C |
| In a pansy velvet gown | A2 |
| Who had not heard of fairies | S |
| Yet seemed of love to dream | B2 |
| We planned an earthly cottage | C2 |
| Beside an earthly stream | B2 |
| Our wedding long is over | G |
| With toil the years fill up | D2 |
| Yet in the evening silence | S |
| We drink a deep sea cup | D2 |
| Nothing the fay remembers | S |
| Yet when she turns to me | S |
| We meet beneath the whirlpool | E2 |
| We swim the golden sea | S |
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