The Stolen Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDDEEFGF HIHIHHIJHHJEEFGF HKHKLHHLHHEEFGF MNMNOPOPEEFG| Where dips the rocky highland | A |
| Of Sleuth Wood in the lake | B |
| There lies a leafy island | A |
| Where flapping herons wake | B |
| The drowsy water rats | C |
| There we've hid our faery vats | C |
| Full of berries | D |
| And of reddest stolen cherries | D |
| Come away O human child | E |
| To the waters and the wild | E |
| With a faery hand in hand | F |
| For the world's more full of weeping than you | G |
| can understand | F |
| - | |
| Where the wave of moonlight glosses | H |
| The dim grey sands with light | I |
| Far off by furthest Rosses | H |
| We foot it all the night | I |
| Weaving olden dances | H |
| Mingling hands and mingling glances | H |
| Till the moon has taken flight | I |
| To and fro we leap | J |
| And chase the frothy bubbles | H |
| While the world is full of troubles | H |
| And is anxious in its sleep | J |
| Come away O human child | E |
| To the waters and the wild | E |
| With a faery hand in hand | F |
| For the world's more full of weeping than you | G |
| can understand | F |
| - | |
| Where the wandering water gushes | H |
| From the hills above Glen Car | K |
| In pools among the rushes | H |
| That scarce could bathe a star | K |
| We seek for slumbering trout | L |
| And whispering in their ears | H |
| Give them unquiet dreams | H |
| Leaning softly out | L |
| From ferns that drop their tears | H |
| Over the young streams | H |
| Come away O human child | E |
| To to waters and the wild | E |
| With a faery hand in hand | F |
| For to world's more full of weeping than you | G |
| can understand | F |
| - | |
| Away with us he's going | M |
| The solemn eyed | N |
| He'll hear no more the lowing | M |
| Of the calves on the warm hillside | N |
| Or the kettle on the hob | O |
| Sing peace into his breast | P |
| Or see the brown mice bob | O |
| Round and round the oatmeal chest | P |
| For be comes the human child | E |
| To the waters and the wild | E |
| With a faery hand in hand | F |
| from a world more full of weeping than you | G |
William Butler Yeats
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