I Saw Three Witches Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEC AFGBHG AIJAAJ ABKLBK| I saw three witches | A |
| That bowed down like barley | B |
| And took to their brooms 'neath a louring sky | C |
| And mounting a storm cloud | D |
| Aloft on its margin | E |
| Stood black in the silver as up they did fly | C |
| - | |
| I saw three witches | A |
| That mocked the poor sparrows | F |
| They carried in cages of wicker along | G |
| Till a hawk from his eyrie | B |
| Swooped down like an arrow | H |
| And smote on the cages and ended their song | G |
| - | |
| I saw three witches | A |
| That sailed in a shallop | I |
| All turning their heads with a truculent smile | J |
| Till a bank of green osiers | A |
| Concealed their grim faces | A |
| Though I heard them lamenting for many a mile | J |
| - | |
| I saw three witches | A |
| Asleep in a valley | B |
| Their heads in a row like stones in a flood | K |
| Till the moon creeping upward | L |
| Looked white through the valley | B |
| And turned them to bushes in bright scarlet bud | K |
Walter De La Mare
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