Down-adown-derry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDADAA ABEBFGHGA ABIBJBDBA ABKBLLLLA AADADLDLA ABABHMHMA ABLBHBBBA ANANBBLBA AAAAAOHOADown 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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