The Mocking Fairy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCB B BCCCB| 'Won't you look out of your window Mrs Gill ' | A |
| Quoth the Fairy nidding nodding in the garden | B |
| 'Can't you look out of your window Mrs Gill ' | A |
| Quoth the Fairy laughing softly in the garden | B |
| But the air was still the cherry boughs were still | C |
| And the ivy tod neath the empty sill | C |
| And never from her window looked out Mrs Gill | C |
| On the Fairy shrilly mocking in the garden | B |
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| 'What have they done with you you poor Mrs Gill ' | - |
| Quoth the Fairy brightly glancing in the garden | B |
| 'Where have they hidden you you poor old Mrs Gill ' | - |
| Quoth the Fairy dancing lightly in the garden | B |
| But night's faint veil now wrapped the hill | C |
| Stark 'neath the stars stood the dead still Mill | C |
| And out of her cold cottage never answered Mrs Gill | C |
| The Fairy mimbling mambling in the garden | B |
Walter De La Mare
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