The Fairy Pendant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE FBFB GHGHIBI B JKJKLBL B MNMNOPOP BFB| i Scene A circle of Druidic stones i | A |
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| First Fairy Afar from our lawn and our levee | B |
| O sister of sorrowful gaze | C |
| Where the roses in scarlet are heavy | B |
| And dream of the end of their days | C |
| You move in another dominion | D |
| And hang o'er the historied stone | E |
| Unpruned in your beautiful pinion | D |
| Who wander and whisper alone | E |
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| All Come away while the moon's in the woodland | F |
| We'll dance and then feast in a dairy | B |
| Though youngest of all in our good band | F |
| You are wasting away little fairy | B |
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| Second Fairy Ah cruel ones leave me alone now | G |
| While I murmur a little and ponder | H |
| The history here in the stone now | G |
| Then away and away I will wander | H |
| And measure the minds of the flowers | I |
| And gaze on the meadow mice wary | B |
| And number their days and their hours | I |
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| All You're wasting away little fairy | B |
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| Second Fairy O shining ones lightly with song pass | J |
| Ah leave me I pray you and beg | K |
| My mother drew forth from the long grass | J |
| A piece of a nightingle's egg | K |
| And cradled me here where are sung | L |
| Of birds even longings for aery | B |
| Wild wisdoms of spirit and tongue | L |
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| All You're wasting away little fairy | B |
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| First Fairy turning away Though the tenderest roses were round you | M |
| The soul of this pitiless place | N |
| With pitiless magic has bound you | M |
| Ah woe for the loss of your face | N |
| And the loss of your laugh with its lightness | O |
| Ah woe for your wings and your head | P |
| Ah woe for your eyes and their brightness | O |
| Ah woe for your slippers of red | P |
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| We'll dance and then feast in a dairy | B |
| Though youngest of all in our good band | F |
| She's wasting away little fairy | B |
William Butler Yeats
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