The Stolen Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDDEEFGF HIHIHHIJHHJEEFGF HKHKLHHLHHEEFGF MNMNOPOPEEFGWhere 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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