Cleve Woods

Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)



SWEET Avon glides where clinging rushes seem
To stay his course, and, in his flattering glass,
Meadows and hills and mellow woodlands pass,
A fairer world as imaged in a dream.
And sometimes, in a visionary gleam,
From out the secret covert's tangled mass,
The fisher-bird starts from the rustling grass,
A jewelled shuttle shot along the stream.

Even here, methinks, when moon-lapped shallows smiled
Round isles no bigger than a baby cot,
Titania found a glowworm-lighted child,
Led far astray, and, with anointing hand
Sprinkling clear dew from a forget-me-not,
Hailed him the Laureate of her Fairyland.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABBAABBA CDCEDE
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 613
Words 100
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 6

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