The Maids Of Elfin-mere Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEFFGG EHHIIEJJGG EKKIIELLGG EMMNNEOOGG| When the spinning room was here | A |
| Came Three Damsels clothed in white | B |
| With their spindles every night | B |
| One and Two and three fair Maidens | C |
| Spinning to a pulsing cadence | D |
| Singing songs of Elfin Mere | E |
| Till the eleventh hour was toll'd | F |
| Then departed through the wold | F |
| Years ago and years ago | G |
| And the tall reeds sigh as the wind doth blow | G |
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| Three white Lilies calm and clear | E |
| And they were loved by every one | H |
| Most of all the Pastor's Son | H |
| Listening to their gentle singing | I |
| Felt his heart go from him clinging | I |
| Round these Maids of Elfin Mere | E |
| Sued each night to make them stay | J |
| Sadden'd when they went away | J |
| Years ago and years ago | G |
| And the tall reeds sigh as the wind doth blow | G |
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| Hands that shook with love and fear | E |
| Dared put back the village clock | K |
| Flew the spindle turn'd the rock | K |
| Flow'd the song with subtle rounding | I |
| Till the false 'eleven' was sounding | I |
| Then these Maids of Elfin Mere | E |
| Swiftly softly left the room | L |
| Like three doves on snowy plume | L |
| Years ago and years ago | G |
| And the tall reeds sigh as the wind doth blow | G |
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| One that night who wander'd near | E |
| Heard lamentings by the shore | M |
| Saw at dawn three stains of gore | M |
| In the waters fade and dwindle | N |
| Never more with song and spindle | N |
| Saw we Maids of Elfin Mere | E |
| The Pastor's Son did pine and die | O |
| Because true love should never lie | O |
| Years ago and years ago | G |
| And the tall reeds sigh as the wind doth blow | G |
William Allingham
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