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.
This is actually a few lines of the script explaining what a fairy's job is in A Midsummer Night's Dream. In this poem it tells that, the fairy wanders everywhere and dew plantations. It tells how a fairy's life is different from a human's life, and created an magical environment. Shakespeare used personification to make the world of fairy livelier, and he also used metaphor to make the dews to sound more precious and pretty. I like this poem because besides using figures of speech, Shakespeare had also rhymed the poem and even added a rhythm to it, which makes it easier to read and sounds better.
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