Fairies
Francis Ledwidge 1887 (Slane) – 1917 (Boezinge)
Maiden-poet, come with me
To the heaped up cairn of Maeve,
And there we'll dance a fairy dance
Upon a fairy's grave.
In and out among the trees,
Filling all the night with sound,
The morning, strung upon her star,
Shall chase us round and round.
What are we but fairies too,
Living but in dreams alone,
Or, at the most, but children still,
Innocent and overgrown ?
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | XXXX XAXA XBXB |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 361 |
Words | 69 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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