The Maid Of The Sweet Brown Knowe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDBC EEBC FFBC DGEE HIBC| COME all ye lads and lassies and listen to me a while | A |
| And I ll sing for you a verse or two will cause you all to smile | A |
| It s all about a young man and I m going to tell you now | B |
| How he lately came a courting of the Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe | C |
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| Said he My pretty fair maid will you come along with me | D |
| We ll both go off together and married we will be | D |
| We ll join our hands in wedlock bands I m speaking to you now | B |
| And I ll do my best endeavour for the Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe | C |
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| This fair and fickle young thing she knew not what to say | E |
| Her eyes did shine like silver bright and merrily did play | E |
| She said Young man your love subdue for I am not ready now | B |
| And I ll spend another season at the foot of the Sweet Brown Knowe | C |
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| Said he My pretty fair maid how can you say so | F |
| Look down in yonder valley where my crops do gently grow | F |
| Look down in yonder valley where my horses and my plough | B |
| Are at their daily labour for the Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe | C |
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| If they re at their daily labour kind sir it s not for me | D |
| For I ve heard of your behaviour I have indeed she said | G |
| There is an Inn where you call in I have heard the people say | E |
| Where you rap and call and pay for all and go home at the break of day | E |
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| If I rap and call and pay for all the money is all my own | H |
| And I ll never spend your fortune for I hear you have got none | I |
| You thought you had my poor heart broke in talking with me now | B |
| But I ll leave you where I found you at the foot of the Sweet Brown Knowe | C |
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