Childe Waters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BBCB DED FBB BDGD BHG FIGG JDG BHB H F KDLD FDC BBB BMB FBN K F BKB FKBM FKKK KBHB KHH FBOB FHO HPHP HFHF HQHF JRF SHRH SHF KRSR KBBTK KBBTKB FBF KRFR SRF KRFR BKBK H FJ BKB KJFJ HBKB BHS KRGA | |
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Childe Waters in his stable stoode | B |
And stroakt his milke white steede | B |
To him a fayre yonge ladye came | C |
As ever ware womans weede | B |
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Sayes 'Christ you save good Childe Waters ' | - |
Sayes 'Christ you save and see | D |
My girdle of gold that was too longe | E |
Is now too short for mee | D |
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'And all is with one childe of yours | F |
I feele sturre at my side | B |
My gowne of greene it is too straighte | B |
Before it was too wide ' | - |
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'If the childe be mine faire Ellen ' he sayd | B |
'Be mine as you tell mee | D |
Then take you Cheshire and Lancashire both | G |
Take them your owne to bee | D |
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'If the childe be mine faire Ellen ' he sayd | B |
'Be mine as you doe sweare | H |
Then take you Cheshire and Lancashire both | G |
And make that childe your heyre ' | - |
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Shee sayes 'I had rather have one kisse | F |
Childe Waters of thy mouth | I |
Than I wolde have Cheshire and Lancashire both | G |
That lye by north and southe | G |
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'And I had rather have one twinkling | J |
Childe Waters of thine ee | D |
Than I wolde have Cheshire and Lancashire both | G |
To take them mine owne to bee ' | - |
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'To morrowe Ellen I must forth ryde | B |
Farr into the north countree | H |
The fayrest ladye that I can finde | B |
Ellen must goe with mee ' | - |
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''Thoughe I am not that ladye fayre | H |
Yet let me goe with thee ' | - |
And ever I pray you Childe Waters | F |
Your foot page let me bee ' | - |
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'If you will my foot page bee Ellen | K |
As you doe tell to mee | D |
Then you must cut your gowne of greene | L |
An inch above your knee | D |
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'Soe must you doe your yellowe lockes | F |
An inch above your ee | D |
You must tell no man what is my name | C |
My foot page then you shall bee ' | - |
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Shee all the longe daye Childe Waters rode | B |
Ran barefoote by his syde | B |
Yet was he never soe courteous a knighte | B |
To say 'Ellen will you ryde ' | - |
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Shee all the long daye Childe Waters rode | B |
Ran barefoote thorow the broome | M |
Yet was hee never soe courteous a knighte | B |
To say 'put on your shoone ' | - |
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'Ride softlye ' shee sayd 'O Childe Waters | F |
Why doe you ryde so fast | B |
The childe which is no mans but thine | N |
My bodye itt will brast ' | - |
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Hee sayth 'Seest thou yonder water Ellen | K |
That flows from banke to brimme ' | - |
'I trust in God O Childe Waters | F |
You never will see me swimme ' | - |
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But when shee came to the water side | B |
She sayled to the chinne | K |
'Nowe the Lord of heaven be my speede | B |
For I must learne to swimme ' | - |
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The salt waters bare up her clothes | F |
Our Ladye bare up her chinne | K |
Childe Waters was a woeman good Lord | B |
To see faire Ellen swimme | M |
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And when shee over the water was | F |
Shee then came to his knee | K |
Hee sayd 'Come hither thou fayre Ellen | K |
Loe yonder what I see | K |
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'Seest thou not yonder hall Ellen | K |
Of redd gold shines the yate | B |
Of twenty foure faire ladyes there | H |
The fairest is my mate | B |
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'Seest thou not yonder hall Ellen | K |
Of redd golde shines the towre | H |
There are twenty four fayre ladyes there | H |
The fayrest is my paramoure ' | - |
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'I see the hall now Childe Waters | F |
Of redd golde shines the yate | B |
God give you good now of yourselfe | O |
And of your worthye mate | B |
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'I see the hall now Childe Waters | F |
Of redd golde shines the towre | H |
God give you good now of yourselfe | O |
And of your paramoure ' | - |
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There twenty four fayre ladyes were | H |
A playing at the ball | P |
And Ellen the fayrest ladye there | H |
Must bring his steed to the stall | P |
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There twenty four fayre ladyes were | H |
A playinge at the chesse | F |
And Ellen the fayrest ladye there | H |
Must bring his horse to gresse | F |
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And then bespake Childe Waters sister | H |
These were the wordes sayd shee | Q |
'You have the prettyest page brother | H |
That ever I did see | F |
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'But that his bellye it is so bigge | J |
His girdle stands soe hye | R |
And ever I pray you Childe Waters | F |
Let him in my chamber lye ' | - |
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'It is not fit for a little foot page | S |
That has run throughe mosse and myre | H |
To lye in the chamber of any ladye | R |
That weares soe riche attyre | H |
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'It is more meete for a little foot page | S |
That has run throughe moss and myre | H |
To take his supper upon his knee | F |
And lye by the kitchen fyre ' | - |
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Now when they had supped every one | K |
To bedd they tooke theyr waye | R |
He sayd 'Come hither my little foot page | S |
And hearken what I saye | R |
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'Goe thee downe into yonder towne | K |
And lowe into the streete | B |
The fayrest ladye that thou canst finde | B |
Hyre in mine armes to sleepe | T |
And take her up in thine armes twaine | K |
For filing of her feete ' | - |
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Ellen is gone into the towne | K |
And lowe into the streete | B |
The fayrest ladye that shee colde finde | B |
She hyred in his armes to sleepe | T |
And tooke her up in her armes twaine | K |
For filing of her feete | B |
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'I praye you nowe good Childe Waters | F |
Let mee lye at your feete | B |
For there is noe place about this house | F |
Where I may 'saye a sleepe ' | - |
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'He gave her leave and fair Ellen | K |
'Down at his beds feet laye | R |
This done the nighte drove on apace | F |
And when it was neare the daye | R |
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Hee sayd 'Rise up my little foot page | S |
Give my steede corne and haye | R |
And give him nowe the good black oates | F |
To carry mee better awaye ' | - |
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Up then rose the faire Ellen | K |
And gave his steed corne and haye | R |
And soe shee did the good black oates | F |
To carry him the better awaye | R |
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She leaned her back to the manger side | B |
And grievouslye did groane | K |
She leaned her back to the manger side | B |
And there shee made her moane | K |
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And that beheard his mother deare | H |
Shee heard 'her woefull woe ' | - |
She sayd 'Rise up thou Childe Waters | F |
And into thy stable goe | J |
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'For in thy stable is a ghost | B |
That grievouslye doth grone | K |
Or else some woman laboures with childe | B |
Shee is soe woe begone ' | - |
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Up then rose Childe Waters soone | K |
And did on his shirte of silke | J |
And then he put on his other clothes | F |
On his bodye as white as milke | J |
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And when he came to the stable dore | H |
Full still there hee did stand | B |
That hee mighte heare his fayre Ellen | K |
Howe shee made her monand | B |
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She sayd 'Lullabye mine own dear childe | B |
Lullabye deare childe deare | H |
I wolde thy father were a kinge | S |
Thy mothere ladye on a biere ' | - |
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'Peace nowe ' hee sayd 'good faire Ellen | K |
Bee of good cheere I praye | R |
And the bridale and the churchinge bothe | G |
Shall bee upon one daye ' | - |
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