The Honey Robbers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEDDDDFGHHII DDDDAJIIKK| There were two Fairies Gimmul and Mel | A |
| Loved Earth Man's honey passing well | A |
| Oft at the hives of his tame bees | B |
| They would their sugary thirst appease | B |
| When even began to darken to night | C |
| They would hie along in the fading light | C |
| With elf locked hair and scarlet lips | D |
| And small stone knives to slit the skeps | D |
| So softly not a bee inside | E |
| Should hear the woven straw divide | E |
| And then with sly and greedy thumbs | D |
| Would rifle the sweet honeycombs | D |
| And drowsily drone to drone would say | D |
| A cold cold wind blows in this way | D |
| And the great Queen would turn her head | F |
| From face to face astonish d | G |
| And though her maids with comb and brush | H |
| Would comb and soothe and whisper Hush | H |
| About the hive would shrilly go | I |
| A keening keening to and fro | I |
| At which those robbers 'neath the trees | D |
| Would taunt and mock the honey bees | D |
| And through their sticky teeth would buzz | D |
| Just as an angry hornet does | D |
| And when this Gimmul and this Mel | A |
| Had munched and sucked and swilled their fill | J |
| Or ever Man's first cock could crow | I |
| Back to their Fa rie Mounds they'd go | I |
| Edging across the twilight air | K |
| Thieves of a guise remotely fair | K |
Walter De La Mare
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