Willow, Willow, Willow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBC DBBEBBC FBBGBBA HBBDBB IBBIBBA JBBJBBC FBBGBBA KBBKBBA LBBLBBA DBBDBBA ABBABBA MBBMBB M DBBDBBM MBBMBBA MBBMBBM NBBNBBA OBBOBBA MBB BBA GBBFBBA PBBPBBM OBBOBBA FBBFBBA QBBQBB| A poore soule sat sighing under a sicamore tree | A |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| With his hand on his bosom his head on his knee | A |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| Sing O the greene willow shall be my garland | C |
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| He sigh'd in his singing and after each grone | D |
| Come willow willow willow | B |
| Come willow willow willow | B |
| 'I am dead to all pleasure my true love is gone | E |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| Sing O the greene willow shall be may garland | C |
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| 'My love she is turned untrue she doth prove | F |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| She renders me nothing but hate for my love | G |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| Sing O the grene willow c | A |
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| 'O pitty me' cried he 'ye lovers each one | H |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| Her heart's hard as marble she rues not my mone | D |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| Sing O the greene willow c ' | - |
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| The cold streams ran by him his eyes wept apace | I |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| The salt tears fell from him which drowned his face | I |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| Sing O the greene willow c | A |
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| The mute birds sate by him made tame by his mones | J |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| The salt tears fell from him which softened the stones | J |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| Sing O the greene willow shall be my garland | C |
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| 'Let nobody blame me her scornes I do prove | F |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| She was borne to be faire I to die for her love | G |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| Sing O the greene willow c | A |
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| 'O that beauty should harbour a heart that's so hard | K |
| Sing willow willow willow | B |
| Sing willow willow willow | B |
| My true love rejecting without all regard | K |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| Sing O the greene willow c | A |
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| 'Let love no more boast him in palace or bower | L |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| For women are trothles and flote in an houre | L |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| Sing O the greene willow c | A |
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| 'But what helps complaining In vaine I complaine | D |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| I must patiently suffer her scorne and disdaine | D |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| Sing O the greene willow c | A |
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| 'Come all you forsaken and sit down by me | A |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| He that 'plaines of his false love mine's falser than she | A |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| Sing O the greene willow c | A |
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| 'The willow wreath weare I since my love did fleet | M |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| A garland for lovers forsaken most meete | M |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| Sing O the greene willow shall be my garland ' | - |
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| - | |
| Part the Second | M |
| - | |
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| 'Lowe lay'd by my sorrow begot by disdaine | D |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| Against her too cruell still still I complaine | D |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| Sing O the greene willow shall be my garland | M |
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| 'O love too injurious to wound my poore heart | M |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| To suffer the triumph and joy in my smart | M |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| Sing O the greene willow c | A |
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| 'O willow willow willow the willow garland | M |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| A sign of her falsenesse before me doth stand | M |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| Sing O the greene willow shall be my garland | M |
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| 'As here it doth bid to despair and to dye | N |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| So hang it friends ore me in grave where I lye | N |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| Sing O the greene willow c | A |
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| 'In grave where I rest mee hang this to the view | O |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| Of all that doe knowe her to blaze her untrue | O |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| Sing O the greene willow c | A |
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| 'With these words engraven as epitaph meet | M |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| 'Here lyes one drank poyson for potion most sweet ' | - |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| Sing O the greene willow c | A |
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| 'Though she thus unkindly hath scorned my love | G |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| And carelessly smiles at the sorrowes I prove | F |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| Sing O the greene willow c | A |
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| 'I cannot against her unkindly exclaim | P |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| Cause once well I loved her and honoured her name | P |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| Sing O the greene willow shall be my garland | M |
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| 'The name of her sounded so sweete in mine eare | O |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| It rays'd my heart lightly the name of my deare | O |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| Sing O the greene willow c | A |
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| 'As then 'twas my comfort it now is my griefe | F |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| It now brings me anguish then brought me reliefe | F |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| Sing O the greene willow c | A |
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| 'Farewell faire false hearted plaints end with my breath | Q |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| Thou dost loath me I love thee though cause of my death | Q |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| O willow willow willow | B |
| Sing O the greene willow shall be my garland ' | - |
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