Jules' Letter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCAAAA ADADAEAE AFAFAGAG HAHAIHIH AAAAAJAJ HAHAKFFF AFAFFAFA AHAHAHAH LALAAMAM HHHNLFLF| MA 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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