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 QBBQBBA 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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