Edward Gray Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EBFB GHIH JEKE CBCB LMNM OBMB PEFE QBM| Sweet Emma Moreland of yonder town | A |
| Met me walking on yonder way | B |
| 'And have you lost your heart ' she said | C |
| 'And are you married yet Edward Gray ' | D |
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| Sweet Emma Moreland spoke to me | E |
| Bitterly weeping I turn'd away | B |
| 'Sweet Emma Moreland love no more | F |
| Can touch the heart of Edward Gray | B |
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| 'Ellen Adair she loved me well | G |
| Against her father's and mother's will | H |
| To day I sat for an hour and wept | I |
| By Ellen's grave on the windy hill | H |
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| 'Shy she was and I thought her cold | J |
| Thought her proud and fled over the sea | E |
| Fill'd I was with folly and spite | K |
| When Ellen Adair was dying for me | E |
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| 'Cruel cruel the words I said | C |
| Cruelly came they back to day | B |
| You're too slight and fickle I said | C |
| To trouble the heart of Edward Gray | B |
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| 'There I put my face in the grass | L |
| Whisper'd Listen to my despair | M |
| I repent me of all I did | N |
| Speak a little Ellen Adair | M |
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| 'Then I took a pencil and wrote | O |
| On the mossy stone as I lay | B |
| Here lies the body of Ellen Adair | M |
| And here the heart of Edward Gray | B |
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| 'Love may come and love may go | P |
| And fly like a bird from tree to tree | E |
| But I will love no more no more | F |
| Till Ellen Adair come back to me | E |
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| 'Bitterly wept I over the stone | Q |
| Bitterly weeping I turn'd away | B |
| There lies the body of Ellen Adair | M |
| And there the heart of Edward Gray ' | - |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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