Down-adown-derry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDADAA ABEBFGHGA ABIBJBDBA ABKBLLLLA AADADLDLA ABABHMHMA ABLBHBBBA ANANBBLBA AAAAAOHOA| Down adown derry | A |
| Sweet Annie Maroon | B |
| Gathering daisies | C |
| In the meadows of Doone | B |
| Hears a shrill piping | D |
| Elflike and free | A |
| Where the waters go brawling | D |
| In rills to the sea | A |
| Singing down adown derry | A |
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| Down adown derry | A |
| Sweet Annie Maroon | B |
| Through the green grasses | E |
| Peeps softly and soon | B |
| Spies under green willows | F |
| A fairy whose song | G |
| Like the smallest of bubbles | H |
| Floats bobbing along | G |
| Singing down adown derry | A |
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| Down adown derry | A |
| Her cheeks were like wine | B |
| Her eyes in her wee face | I |
| Like water sparks shine | B |
| Her niminy fingers | J |
| Her sleek tresses preen | B |
| The which in the combing | D |
| She peeps out between | B |
| Singing down adown derry | A |
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| Down adown derry | A |
| Shrill shrill was her tune | B |
| Come to my water house | K |
| Annie Maroon | B |
| Come in your dimity | L |
| Ribbon on head | L |
| To wear siller seaweed | L |
| And coral instead | L |
| Singing down adown derry | A |
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| Down adown derry | A |
| Lean fish of the sea | A |
| Bring lanthorns for feasting | D |
| The gay Fa rie | A |
| 'Tis sand for the dancing | D |
| A music all sweet | L |
| In the water green gloaming | D |
| For thistledown feet | L |
| Singing down adown derry | A |
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| Down adown derry | A |
| Sweet Annie Maroon | B |
| Looked large on the fairy | A |
| Curled wan as the moon | B |
| And all the grey ripples | H |
| To the Mill racing by | M |
| With harps and with timbrels | H |
| Did ringing reply | M |
| Singing down adown derry | A |
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| Down adown derry | A |
| Sang the Fairy of Doone | B |
| Piercing the heart | L |
| Of Sweet Annie Maroon | B |
| And lo when like roses | H |
| The clouds of the sun | B |
| Faded at dusk gone | B |
| Was Annie Maroon | B |
| Singing down adown derry | A |
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| Down adown derry | A |
| The daisies are few | N |
| Frost twinkles powdery | A |
| In haunts of the dew | N |
| And only the robin | B |
| Perched on a thorn | B |
| Can comfort the heart | L |
| Of a father forlorn | B |
| Singing down adown derry | A |
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| Down adown derry | A |
| There's snow in the air | A |
| Ice where the lily | A |
| Bloomed waxen and fair | A |
| He may call o'er the water | A |
| Cry cry through the Mill | O |
| But Annie Maroon alas | H |
| Answer ne'er will | O |
| Singing down adown derry | A |
Walter De La Mare
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