French Peasant Songs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDEFE A GHGH HIBI A FJKJ LFMF| I | A |
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| Oh fair apple tree and oh fair apple tree | B |
| As heavy and sweet as the blossoms on thee | B |
| My heart is heavy with love | C |
| It wanteth but a little wind | D |
| To make the blossoms fall | E |
| It wanteth but a young lover | F |
| To win me heart and all | E |
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| II | A |
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| I send my love letters | G |
| By larks on the wing | H |
| My love sends me letters | G |
| When nightingales sing | H |
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| Without reading or writing | H |
| Their burden we know | I |
| They only say Love me | B |
| Who love you so | I |
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| III | A |
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| And if they ask for me brother | F |
| Say I come never home | J |
| For I have taken a strange wife | K |
| Beyond the salt sea foam | J |
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| The green grass is my bridal bed | L |
| The black tomb my good mother | F |
| The stones and dust within the grave | M |
| Are my sister and my brother | F |
Andrew Lang
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