Bewitched Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB ADEF GHGH IAJA KLML INCN| I have heard a lady this night | A |
| Lissom and jimp and slim | B |
| Calling me calling me over the heather | C |
| 'Neath the beech boughs dusk and dim | B |
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| I have followed a lady this night | A |
| Followed her far and lone | D |
| Fox and adder and weasel know | E |
| The ways that we have gone | F |
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| I sit at my supper 'mid honest faces | G |
| And crumble my crust and say | H |
| Nought in the long drawn drawl of the voices | G |
| Talking the hours away | H |
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| I'll go to my chamber under the gable | I |
| And the moon will lift her light | A |
| In at my lattice from over the moorland | J |
| Hollow and still and bright | A |
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| And I know she will shine on a lady of witchcraft | K |
| Gladness and grief to see | L |
| Who has taken my heart with her nimble fingers | M |
| Calls in my dreams to me | L |
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| Who has led me a dance by dell and dingle | I |
| My human soul to win | N |
| Made me a changeling to my own own mother | C |
| A stranger to my kin | N |
Walter De La Mare
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