Margery Of The Fens Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCADDEEAFFGH IIJJ KK LMNO PPBB JJFQQ F RR| I | A |
| Yes I'm dying by inches the Devil has got his way | B |
| I fought him fourscore years but he's gripped me hard to day | B |
| No not God not a word of God For I let him be | C |
| The Devil is waiting I tell you but God has forgotten me | C |
| II | A |
| Sir you know I'm a witch Look here lean closer down | D |
| If you tossed me into the dyke you know I couldn't drown | D |
| If you pricked me over with pins I never could feel a pin | E |
| For the Devil has sealed me his and I've sinned the Original Sin | E |
| III | A |
| Fourscore years have I lived here in the heart of the Fens | F |
| Dragging ages of years but fourscore years of men's | F |
| And the pools 'll stir and the fogs 'll rise and the winds 'll moan | G |
| Ay there were others along with me once but they're gone they're gone | H |
| IV | - |
| Ages of years alone There was Dickon my man he died | I |
| And the child didn't die but her father was on the Almighty's side | I |
| And he took him away to himself but he left the girl to hell | J |
| And me he left to the Devil with hardly a soul to sell | J |
| V | - |
| Cursed and motherless girl motherless girl that was mine | K |
| I brought her up on my knees and she left 'em to herd with swine | K |
| I never have named her name these twoscore years save three | - |
| She cast me off to be harlot and I cast her off from me | - |
| VI | - |
| What's that crying and wailing The wind Oh ay the wind | L |
| And the wages of sin is death and the soul shall die that hath sinned | M |
| She cast me off and she came back home with her baby again | N |
| And I spoke no word and I shut the door in her face in the rain | O |
| VII | - |
| And the baby wailed and wailed on the threshold out in the night | P |
| And all night long she lay at the door and I sat upright | P |
| And at morn she rose and I spoke no word and she went her way | B |
| And the wages of sin is death and it's I must die to day | B |
| VIII | - |
| Inch by inch I'm dying and Satan's at watch hard by | - |
| For he'll have my soul it was all I had when I come to die | - |
| For my man that was he died and my girl that was she fell | J |
| And I flung my soul away and the Devil caught it for hell | J |
| IX | F |
| Twoscore years save three I've lived the life of a witch | Q |
| And I've plagued the cattle and folk with cramp and murrain and stitch | Q |
| And I've sold my soul for my girl she killed my heart let be | - |
| She cast me off to be harlot and I cast her off from me | - |
| X | F |
| Go and leave me alone I'm past your help I shall lie | - |
| As she lay through the night and at morn as she went in the rain I shall die | - |
| Go and leave me alone Let me die as I lived But oh | R |
| If the wind wouldn't cry and wail with the baby's cry as I go | R |
Arthur Symons
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