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The Old Witch In The Copse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHIHCJGJCKCK CCCDLMNMOPCPCQRQSTUT

I am a Witch and a kind old WitchA
There's many a one knows thatB
Alone I live in my little dark houseC
With Pillycock my catB
A girl came running through the nightD
When all the winds blew freeE
O mother change a young man's heartF
That will not look on meE
O mother brew a magic meadG
To stir his heart so coldH
Just as you will my dear said II
And I thank you for your goldH
So here am I in the wattled copseC
Where all the twigs are brownJ
To find what I need to brew my meadG
As the dark of night comes downJ
Primroses in my old handsC
Sweet to smell and youngK
And violets blue that spring in the grassC
Wherever the larks have sungK
With celandines as heavenly crownsC
Yellowy gold and bright All of theseC
O all of theseC
Shall bring her Love's delightD
But orchids growing snakey greenL
Speckled dark with bloodM
And fallen leaves that curled and shrankN
And rotted in the mudM
With blistering nettles burning harshO
And blinding thorns aboveP
All of these O all of theseC
Shall bring the pains of LoveP
Shall bring the pains of Love my PussC
That cease not night or dayQ
The bitter rage nought can assuageR
Till it bleeds the heart awayQ
Pillycock mine my hands are fullS
My pot is on the fireT
Purr my pet this fool shall getU
Her fool's desireT

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Michelle Ann: I think this poem is by Frances Cornford, not Barry Cornwall
 

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