Down-adown-derry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDADAA ABEBFGHGA ABIBJBDBA ABKBLLLLA AADADLDLA ABABHMHMA ABLBHBBBA ANANBBLBA AAAAAOHOA

Down adown derryA
Sweet Annie MaroonB
Gathering daisiesC
In the meadows of DooneB
Hears a shrill pipingD
Elflike and freeA
Where the waters go brawlingD
In rills to the seaA
Singing down adown derryA
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Down adown derryA
Sweet Annie MaroonB
Through the green grassesE
Peeps softly and soonB
Spies under green willowsF
A fairy whose songG
Like the smallest of bubblesH
Floats bobbing alongG
Singing down adown derryA
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Down adown derryA
Her cheeks were like wineB
Her eyes in her wee faceI
Like water sparks shineB
Her niminy fingersJ
Her sleek tresses preenB
The which in the combingD
She peeps out betweenB
Singing down adown derryA
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Down adown derryA
Shrill shrill was her tuneB
Come to my water houseK
Annie MaroonB
Come in your dimityL
Ribbon on headL
To wear siller seaweedL
And coral insteadL
Singing down adown derryA
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Down adown derryA
Lean fish of the seaA
Bring lanthorns for feastingD
The gay Fa rieA
'Tis sand for the dancingD
A music all sweetL
In the water green gloamingD
For thistledown feetL
Singing down adown derryA
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Down adown derryA
Sweet Annie MaroonB
Looked large on the fairyA
Curled wan as the moonB
And all the grey ripplesH
To the Mill racing byM
With harps and with timbrelsH
Did ringing replyM
Singing down adown derryA
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Down adown derryA
Sang the Fairy of DooneB
Piercing the heartL
Of Sweet Annie MaroonB
And lo when like rosesH
The clouds of the sunB
Faded at dusk goneB
Was Annie MaroonB
Singing down adown derryA
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Down adown derryA
The daisies are fewN
Frost twinkles powderyA
In haunts of the dewN
And only the robinB
Perched on a thornB
Can comfort the heartL
Of a father forlornB
Singing down adown derryA
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Down adown derryA
There's snow in the airA
Ice where the lilyA
Bloomed waxen and fairA
He may call o'er the waterA
Cry cry through the MillO
But Annie Maroon alasH
Answer ne'er willO
Singing down adown derryA

Walter De La Mare



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