Jules' Letter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCAAAA ADADAEAE AFAFAGAG HAHAIHIH AAAAAJAJ HAHAKFFF AFAFFAFA AHAHAHAH LALAAMAM HHHNLFLFMA CHERE | A |
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Since the morning we parted | B |
On the slippery docks of Rochelle | C |
I have wandered well nigh broken hearted | B |
Through many a tree shadowed dell | C |
I've hunted the otter and beaver | A |
Have tracked the brown bear and the deer | A |
And have lain almost dying with fever | A |
While not a companion was near | A |
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I've toiled in the fierce heat of summer | A |
Under skies like a great dome of gold | D |
And have tramped growing number and number | A |
In winter through snowstorm and cold | D |
Yet the love in my heart was far hotter | A |
The fear of my soul far more chill | E |
As my thoughts crossed the wild waste of water | A |
To your little home on the hill | E |
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But now Father Time in a measure | A |
Has reconciled me to my fate | F |
For I know he will bring my dear treasure | A |
Back into my arms soon or late | F |
And besides every evening when weary | A |
I lie on my soft couch of pine | G |
Sleep wafts me again to my dearie | A |
And your heart once more beats against mine | G |
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You never have heard of such doings | H |
As those that are going on here | A |
We've nothing but weddings and wooings | H |
From dawn till the stars reappear | A |
For the king gracious monarch a vessel | I |
Has sent bearing widows and maids | H |
Within our rough bosoms to nestle | I |
And make us a home in the glades | H |
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They are tall and short ugly and pretty | A |
There are blondes and brunettes by the score | A |
Some silent and dull others witty | A |
And made for mankind to adore | A |
Some round as an apple some slender | A |
In fact so he be not in haste | J |
Any man with a heart at all tender | A |
Can pick out a wife to his taste | J |
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Now darling don't pout and grow jealous | H |
I still am a bachelor free | A |
In spite of the governor's zealous | H |
And extra judicial decree | A |
Commanding all men to be married | K |
In less than two weeks from this date | F |
And promising all who have tarried | F |
Shall feel the full strength of his hate | F |
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In spite of his maddening order | A |
That none in the country may trade | F |
With the tribes on our side of the border | A |
Who is not a benedict staid | F |
In spite of a clause far the sorest | F |
That none past his twentieth year | A |
And single shall enter the forest | F |
On any pretext whatsoe'er | A |
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Now you know I was ever a rover | A |
Half stifled by cities or towns | H |
Of nature and you a warm lover | A |
Wooing both in despite of your frowns | H |
So you well may imagine my sorrow | A |
When fettered and threatened like this | H |
Oh Marie dear pack up to morrow | A |
And bring me back freedom and bliss | H |
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If you do not who knows but some morning | L |
I'll waken and find a decree | A |
Has been passed that without any warning | L |
Has wedded some woman to me | A |
Oh Marie chere Marie have pity | A |
You only my woes can assuage | M |
I'm confined till I wed to the city | A |
And feel like a bird in a cage | M |
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Then come nor give heed to the billows | H |
That tumble between you and Jules | H |
I know a sweet spot where lithe willows | H |
Bend over a silvery pool | N |
And there we will dwell dear defying | L |
Misfortune to tear us apart | F |
My darling come to me I'm dying | L |
To press you again to my heart | F |
Arthur Weir
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