Dora Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIBJKLMNKOPQI RQSPTUVWXYDZA2B2C2GD 2PBE2MBQDF2DG2H2I2J2 K2L2M2ON2F2PO2JP2Q2R 2S2T2G2KU2G2DIV2S2W2 X2Y2H2Z2A3B3V2C3N2KW 2D3IDV2DJ2X2Y2DE3F3S 2G3G2DH3MI3W2PH2J3Z2 A3K3G2L3K3G2S2DJK2G2 K3L2H2YX2GR2DK3H2UM3 H2N3K3O3A2K3A2K3L2K2 H2MP3K3JK3TL2K3H2S2K 3YDQ3H2R3BBH2DK3S3T3 K3K3H2K3T2K3U3With farmer Allan at the farm abode | A |
William and Dora William was his son | B |
And she his niece He often look'd at them | C |
And often thought 'I'll make them man and wife ' | D |
Now Dora felt her uncle's will in all | E |
And yearn'd toward William but the youth because | F |
He had been always with her in the house | G |
Thought not of Dora | H |
Then there came a day | I |
When Allan call'd his son and said 'My son | B |
I married late but I would wish to see | J |
My grandchild on my knees before I die | K |
And I have set my heart upon a match | L |
Now therefore look to Dora she is well | M |
To look to thrifty too beyond her age | N |
She is my brother's daughter he and I | K |
Had once hard words and parted and he died | O |
In foreign lands but for his sake I bred | P |
His daughter Dora take her for your wife | Q |
For I have wish'd this marriage night and day | I |
For many years ' But William answer'd short | R |
'I cannot marry Dora by my life | Q |
I will not marry Dora ' Then the old man | S |
Was wroth and doubled up his hands and said | P |
'You will not boy you dare to answer thus | T |
But in my time a father's word was law | U |
And so it shall be now for me Look to it | V |
Consider William take a month to think | W |
And let me have an answer to my wish | X |
Or by the Lord that made me you shall pack | Y |
And never more darken my doors again ' | D |
But William answer'd madly bit his lips | Z |
And broke away The more he look'd at her | A2 |
The less he liked her and his ways were harsh | B2 |
But Dora bore them meekly Then before | C2 |
The month was out he left his father's house | G |
And hired himself to work within the fields | D2 |
And half in love half spite he woo'd and wed | P |
A labourer's daughter Mary Morrison | B |
Then when the bells were ringing Allan call'd | E2 |
His niece and said 'My girl I love you well | M |
But if you speak with him that was my son | B |
Or change a word with her he calls his wife | Q |
My home is none of yours My will is law ' | D |
And Dora promised being meek She thought | F2 |
'It cannot be my uncle's mind will change ' | D |
And days went on and there was born a boy | G2 |
To William then distresses came on him | H2 |
And day by day he pass'd his father's gate | I2 |
Heart broken and his father help'd him not | J2 |
But Dora stored what little she could save | K2 |
And sent it them by stealth nor did they know | L2 |
Who sent it till at last a fever seized | M2 |
On William and in harvest time he died | O |
Then Dora went to Mary Mary sat | N2 |
And look'd with tears upon her boy and thought | F2 |
Hard things of Dora Dora came and said | P |
'I have obey'd my uncle until now | O2 |
And I have sinn'd for it was all thro' me | J |
This evil came on William at the first | P2 |
But Mary for the sake of him that's gone | Q2 |
And for your sake the woman that he chose | R2 |
And for this orphan I am come to you | S2 |
You know there has not been for these five years | T2 |
So full a harvest let me take the boy | G2 |
And I will set him in my uncle's eye | K |
Among the wheat that when his heart is glad | U2 |
Of the full harvest he may see the boy | G2 |
And bless him for the sake of him that's gone ' | D |
And Dora took the child and went her way | I |
Across the wheat and sat upon a mound | V2 |
That was unsown where many poppies grew | S2 |
Far off the farmer came into the field | W2 |
And spied her not for none of all his men | X2 |
Dare tell him Dora waited with the child | Y2 |
And Dora would have risen and gone to him | H2 |
But her heart fail'd her and the reapers reap'd | Z2 |
And the sun fell and all the land was dark | A3 |
But when the morrow came she rose and took | B3 |
The child once more and sat upon the mound | V2 |
And made a little wreath of all the flowers | C3 |
That grew about and tied it round his hat | N2 |
To make him pleasing in her uncle's eye | K |
Then when the farmer pass'd into the field | W2 |
He spied her and he left his men at work | D3 |
And came and said 'Where were you yesterday | I |
Whose child is that What are you doing here ' | D |
So Dora cast her eyes upon the ground | V2 |
And answer'd softly 'This is William's child ' | D |
'And did I not ' said Allan 'did I not | J2 |
Forbid you Dora ' Dora said again | X2 |
'Do with me as you will but take the child | Y2 |
And bless him for the sake of him that's gone ' | D |
And Allan said 'I see it is a trick | E3 |
Got up betwixt you and the woman there | F3 |
I must be taught my duty and by you | S2 |
You knew my word was law and yet you dared | G3 |
To slight it Well for I will take the boy | G2 |
But go you hence and never see me more ' | D |
So saying he took the boy that cried aloud | H3 |
And struggled hard The wreath of flowers fell | M |
At Dora's feet She bow'd upon her hands | I3 |
And the boy's cry came to her from the field | W2 |
More and more distant She bow'd down her head | P |
Remembering the clay when first shecame | H2 |
And all the things that had been She how'd down | J3 |
And wept in secret and the reapers reap'd | Z2 |
And the sun fell and all the land was dark | A3 |
Then Dora went to Mary's house and stood | K3 |
Upon the threshold Mary saw the boy | G2 |
Was not with Dora She broke out in praise | L3 |
To God that help'd her in her widowhood | K3 |
And Dora said 'My uncle took the boy | G2 |
But Mary let me live and work with you | S2 |
He says that he will never see me more ' | D |
Then answer'd Mary 'This shall never be | J |
That thou shouldst take my trouble on thyself | K2 |
And now I think he shall not have the boy | G2 |
For he will teach him hardness and to slight | K3 |
His mother therefore thou and I will go | L2 |
And I will have my boy and bring him home | H2 |
And I will beg of him to take thee back | Y |
But if he will not take thee back again | X2 |
Then thou and I will live within one house | G |
And work for William's child until he grows | R2 |
Of age to help us ' | D |
So the women kiss'd | K3 |
Each other and set out and reach'd the farm | H2 |
The door was off the latch they peep'd and saw | U |
The boy set up betwixt his grandsire's knees | M3 |
Who thrust him in the hollows of his arm | H2 |
And clapt him on the hands and on the cheeks | N3 |
Like one that loved him and the lad stretch'd out | K3 |
And babbled for the golden seal that hung | O3 |
From Allan's watch and sparkled by the fire | A2 |
Then they came in but when the boy beheld | K3 |
His mother he cried out to come to her | A2 |
And Allan set him down and Mary said | K3 |
'O Father if you let me call you so | L2 |
I never carne a begging for myself | K2 |
Or William or this child but now I come | H2 |
For Dora take her hack she loves you well | M |
O Sir when William died he died at peace | P3 |
With all men for I ask'd him and he said | K3 |
He could not ever rue his marrying me | J |
I had been a patient wife but Sir he said | K3 |
That he was wrong to cross his father thus | T |
God bless him he said and may he never know | L2 |
The troubles I have gone thro' Then he turn'd | K3 |
His face and pass'd unhappy that I am | H2 |
But now Sir let me have my boy for you | S2 |
Will make him hard and he will learn to slight | K3 |
His father's memory and take Dora back | Y |
And let all this be as it was before ' | D |
So Mary said and Dora hid her face | Q3 |
By Mary There was silence in the room | H2 |
And all at once the old man burst in sobs | R3 |
I have been to blame to blame I have kill'd my son | B |
I have kill'd him but I loved him my dear son | B |
May God forgive me I have been to blame | H2 |
Kiss me my children ' | D |
Then they clung about | K3 |
The old man's neck and kiss'd him many times | S3 |
And all the man was broken with remorse | T3 |
And all his love came back a hundred fold | K3 |
And for three hours he sobb'd o'er Wiliam's child | K3 |
Thinking of William | H2 |
So those four abode | K3 |
Within one house together and as years | T2 |
Went forward Mary took another mate | K3 |
But Dora lived unmarried till her death | U3 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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