Cecil Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJAK LAMN GOAA IAEG| Ye little elves who haunt sweet dells | A |
| Where flowers with the dew commune | B |
| I pray you hush the child Cecil | C |
| With windlike song | D |
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| O little elves so white she lieth | E |
| Each eyelid gentler than the flow'r | F |
| Of the bramble and her fleecy hair | G |
| Like smoke of gold | H |
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| O little elves her hands and feet | I |
| The angels muse upon and God | J |
| Hath shut a glimpse of Paradise | A |
| In each blue eye | K |
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| O little elves her tiny body | L |
| Like a white flake of snow it is | A |
| Drooping upon the pale green hood | M |
| Of the chill snowdrop | N |
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| O little elves with elderflower | G |
| And pimpernel and the white hawthorn | O |
| Sprinkle the journey of her dreams | A |
| And little elves | A |
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| Call to her magically sweet | I |
| Lest of her very tenderness | A |
| She do forsake this rough brown earth | E |
| And return to us no more | G |
Walter De La Mare
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