The Stolen Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDDEEFGF HIHIHHIJHHJEEFGF HKHKLHHLHHEEFGF MNMNOPOPEEFG

Where dips the rocky highlandA
Of Sleuth Wood in the lakeB
There lies a leafy islandA
Where flapping herons wakeB
The drowsy water ratsC
There we've hid our faery vatsC
Full of berriesD
And of reddest stolen cherriesD
Come away O human childE
To the waters and the wildE
With a faery hand in handF
For the world's more full of weeping than youG
can understandF
-
Where the wave of moonlight glossesH
The dim grey sands with lightI
Far off by furthest RossesH
We foot it all the nightI
Weaving olden dancesH
Mingling hands and mingling glancesH
Till the moon has taken flightI
To and fro we leapJ
And chase the frothy bubblesH
While the world is full of troublesH
And is anxious in its sleepJ
Come away O human childE
To the waters and the wildE
With a faery hand in handF
For the world's more full of weeping than youG
can understandF
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Where the wandering water gushesH
From the hills above Glen CarK
In pools among the rushesH
That scarce could bathe a starK
We seek for slumbering troutL
And whispering in their earsH
Give them unquiet dreamsH
Leaning softly outL
From ferns that drop their tearsH
Over the young streamsH
Come away O human childE
To to waters and the wildE
With a faery hand in handF
For to world's more full of weeping than youG
can understandF
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Away with us he's goingM
The solemn eyedN
He'll hear no more the lowingM
Of the calves on the warm hillsideN
Or the kettle on the hobO
Sing peace into his breastP
Or see the brown mice bobO
Round and round the oatmeal chestP
For be comes the human childE
To the waters and the wildE
With a faery hand in handF
from a world more full of weeping than youG

William Butler Yeats



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