William Shakespeare poem #1

                                        A Fairy Song                              

 

 

Over hill, over dale,

Thorough bush, thorough brier,Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorough fire!
I do wander everywhere,
Swifter than the moon's sphere;
And I serve the Fairy Queen,
To dew her orbs upon the green;
The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
In their gold coats spots you see;
Those be rubies, fairy favours;
In those freckles live their savours;
I must go seek some dewdrops here,
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.

In "A Fairy Song", a fairy travels and drops dewdrops on the flowers. He spreads the dewdrops because of Fairy Queen's commands. A cowtail is the type of flower that he is dropping the dewdrops on. The flowers are the Queen's pensioners, which means that the Queen is giving the fairy something in return. When I first read the poem, I was confused about what literary element I should talk about. A lot of figurative language was present in this poem. Personification showed up in the poem in line 14. Repetition was a big part of this poem because they fairy would work day in and day out putting droplets on the flowers. "..Over and Thorough" is a good example of repetition. Rhyme scheme was evident in this poem because it was ABABCCDDEEFFGG.

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