Fairy Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHII GGGGJJ KLMMNN A LAAA| Beside the old hall fire upon my nurse's knee | A |
| Of happy fairy days what tales were told to me | A |
| I thought the world was once all peopled with princesses | B |
| And my heart would beat to hear their loves and their distresses | B |
| And many a quiet night in slumber sweet and deep | C |
| The pretty fairy people would visit me in sleep | C |
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| I saw them in my dreams come flying east and west | D |
| With wondrous fairy gifts the newborn babe they bless'd | D |
| One has brought a jewel and one a crown of gold | E |
| And one has brought a curse but she is wrinkled and old | E |
| The gentle queen turns pale to hear those words of sin | F |
| But the king he only laughs and bids the dance begin | F |
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| The babe has grown to be the fairest of the land | G |
| And rides the forest green a hawk upon her hand | G |
| An ambling palfrey white a golden robe and crown | H |
| I've seen her in my dreams riding up and down | H |
| And heard the ogre laugh as she fell into his snare | I |
| At the little tender creature who wept and tore her hair | I |
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| But ever when it seemed her need was at the sorest | G |
| A prince in shining mail comes prancing through the forest | G |
| A waving ostrich plume a buckler burnished bright | G |
| I've seen him in my dreams good sooth a gallant knight | G |
| His lips are coral red beneath a dark moustache | J |
| See how he waves his hand and how his blue eyes flash | J |
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| 'Come forth thou Paynim knight ' he shouts in accents clear | K |
| The giant and the maid both tremble his voice to hear | L |
| Saint Mary guard him well he draws his falchion keen | M |
| The giant and the knight are fighting on the green | M |
| I see them in my dreams his blade gives stroke on stroke | N |
| The giant pants and reels and tumbles like an oak | N |
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| With what a blushing grace he falls upon his knee | A |
| And takes the lady's hand and whispers 'You are free ' | - |
| Ah happy childish tales of knight and faerie | L |
| I waken from my dreams but there's ne'er a knight for me | A |
| I waken from my dreams and wish that I could be | A |
| A child by the old hall fire upon my nurse's knee | A |
William Makepeace Thackeray
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