The Three Beggars Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH GIGJ GKGL MNMO PQFJ RFRF STST AGAG| 'Twas autumn daybreak gold and wild | A |
| While past St Ann's grey tower they shuffled | B |
| Three beggars spied a fairy child | A |
| In crimson mantle muffled | B |
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| The daybreak lighted up her face | C |
| All pink and sharp and emerald eyed | D |
| She looked on them a little space | C |
| And shrill as hautboy cried | D |
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| O three tall footsore men of rags | E |
| Which walking this gold morn I see | F |
| What will ye give me from your bags | E |
| For fairy kisses three | F |
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| The first that was a reddish man | G |
| Out of his bundle takes a crust | H |
| La by the tombstones of St Ann | G |
| There's fee if fee ye must | H |
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| The second that was a chestnut man | G |
| Out of his bundle draws a bone | I |
| Lo by the belfry of St Ann | G |
| And all my breakfast gone | J |
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| The third that was a yellow man | G |
| Out of his bundle picks a groat | K |
| La by the Angel of St Ann | G |
| And I must go without | L |
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| That changeling lean and icy lipped | M |
| Touched crust and bone and groat and lo | N |
| Beneath her finger taper tipped | M |
| The magic all ran through | O |
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| Instead of crust a peacock pie | P |
| Instead of bone sweet venison | Q |
| Instead of groat a white lily | F |
| With seven blooms thereon | J |
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| And each fair cup was deep with wine | R |
| Such was the changeling's charity | F |
| The sweet feast was enough for nine | R |
| But not too much for three | F |
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| O toothsome meat in jelly froze | S |
| O tender haunch of elfin stag | T |
| O rich the odour that arose | S |
| O plump with scraps each bag | T |
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| There in the daybreak gold and wild | A |
| Each merry hearted beggar man | G |
| Drank deep unto the fairy child | A |
| And blessed the good St Ann | G |
Walter De La Mare
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