Upon a Summer’s night?

And watched the gnomes and pixies prance

When’er the moon is bright?

Tis splendid fun to see them run

As soon as it grows light.

One evening sister May and I

Went out soon after ten;

The moon hung like a ball on high

Above the fairy glen,

And round and round upon the ground

Danced fays and elfin men.

And there, at dawn, they leave behind

A ring of toadstools wee

(Where they have danced you’ll always find

This mark for folks to see).

Then off they fly into the sky

Just as the clock strikes three.

––––––––––––– Eugenie Thornton

o   Meter: iambic tetrameter, four sets of syllables that are accented and unaccented in a specific pattern (da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM)

Internal rhyme: 
o   fun – run
o   went – ten
o   round – ground

o   Indirect metaphor: N/A

o   Then off they fly into the sky just as the clock strikes three.