Mistress Fell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC AADDEE AAFFGG HIJJDD KLMMNN| Whom seek you here sweet Mistress Fell | A |
| One who loved me passing well | A |
| Dark his eye wild his face | B |
| Stranger if in this lonely place | B |
| Bide such an one then prythee say | C |
| I am come here to day | C |
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| Many his like Mistress Fell | A |
| I did not look so cannot tell | A |
| Only this I surely know | D |
| When his voice called me I must go | D |
| Touched me his fingers and my heart | E |
| Leapt at the sweet pain's smart | E |
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| Why did he leave you Mistress Fell | A |
| Magic laid its dreary spell | A |
| Stranger he was fast asleep | F |
| Into his dream I tried to creep | F |
| Called his name soft was my cry | G |
| He answered not one sigh | G |
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| The flower and the thorn are here | H |
| Falleth the night dew cold and clear | I |
| Out of her bower the bird replies | J |
| Mocking the dark with ecstasies | J |
| See how the earth's green grass doth grow | D |
| Praising what sleeps below | D |
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| Thus have they told me And I come | K |
| As flies the wounded wild bird home | L |
| Not tears I give but all that he | M |
| Clasped in his arms sweet charity | M |
| All that he loved to him I bring | N |
| For a close whispering | N |
Walter De La Mare
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