A Lover's Quarrel Among The Fairies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DCDC CCCC CECE FGFG HIHI CCCC JCJC KIKI ELEL MNMN OPOP QRQR ECEC| i A moonlight moor Fairies leading a child i | A |
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| Male Fairies Do not fear us earthly maid | B |
| We will lead you hand in hand | C |
| By the willows in the glade | B |
| By the gorse on the high land | C |
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| By the pasture where the lambs | D |
| Shall awake with lonely bleat | C |
| Shivering closer to their dams | D |
| From the rustling of our feet | C |
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| You will with the banshee chat | C |
| And will find her good at heart | C |
| Sitting on a warm smooth mat | C |
| In the green hill's inmost part | C |
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| We will bring a crown of gold | C |
| Bending humbly every knee | E |
| Now thy great white doll to hold | C |
| Oh so happy would we be | E |
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| Ah it is so very big | F |
| And we are so very small | G |
| So we dance a fairy jig | F |
| To the fiddle's rise and fall | G |
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| Yonder see the fairy girls | H |
| All their jealousy display | I |
| Lift their chins and toss their curls | H |
| Lift their chins and turn away | I |
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| See you brother Cranberry Fruit | C |
| He ho ho the merry blade | C |
| Hugs and pets and pats yon newt | C |
| Teasing every wilful maid | C |
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| Girl Fairies Lead they one with foolish care | J |
| Deafening us with idle sound | C |
| One whose breathing shakes the air | J |
| One whose footfall shakes the ground | C |
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| Come you Coltsfoot Mousetail come | K |
| Come I know where far away | I |
| Owls there be whom age makes numb | K |
| Come and tease them till the day | I |
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| Puffed like puff balls on a tree | E |
| Scoff they at the modern earth | L |
| Ah how large mice used to be | E |
| In their days of youthful mirth | L |
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| Come beside a sandy lake | M |
| Feed a fire with stems of grass | N |
| Roasting berries steam and shake | M |
| Talking hours swiftly pass | N |
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| Long before the morning fire | O |
| Wake the larks upon the green | P |
| Yonder foolish ones will tire | O |
| Of their tall new fangled queen | P |
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| They will lead her home again | Q |
| To the orchard circled farm | R |
| At the house of weary men | Q |
| Raise the door pin with alarm | R |
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| And come kneeling on one knee | E |
| While we shake our heads and scold | C |
| This their wanton treachery | E |
| And our slaves be as of old | C |
William Butler Yeats
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