The Mango-tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC BDBD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKM NIKI DODO PQPQ RGRG H HS HBHB| He wiled me through the furzy croft | A |
| He wiled me down the sandy lane | B |
| He told his boy's love soft and oft | A |
| Until I told him mine again | C |
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| We married and we sailed the main | B |
| A soldier and a soldier's wife | D |
| We marched through many a burning plain | B |
| We sighed for many a gallant life | D |
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| But his God kept it safe from harm | E |
| He toiled and dared and earned command | F |
| And those three stripes upon his arm | E |
| Were more to me than gold or land | F |
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| Sure he would win some great renown | G |
| Our lives were strong our hearts were high | H |
| One night the fever struck him down | G |
| I sat and stared and saw him die | H |
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| I had his children one two three | I |
| One week I had them blithe and sound | J |
| The next beneath this mango tree | I |
| By him in barrack burying ground | J |
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| I sit beneath the mango shade | K |
| I live my five years' life all o'er | L |
| Round yonder stems his children played | K |
| He mounted guard at yonder door | M |
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| 'Tis I not they am gone and dead | N |
| They live they know they feel they see | I |
| Their spirits light the golden shade | K |
| Beneath the giant mango tree | I |
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| All things save I are full of life | D |
| The minas pluming velvet breasts | O |
| The monkeys in their foolish strife | D |
| The swooping hawks the swinging nests | O |
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| The lizards basking on the soil | P |
| The butterflies who sun their wings | Q |
| The bees about their household toil | P |
| They live they love the blissful things | Q |
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| Each tender purple mango shoot | R |
| That folds and droops so bashful down | G |
| It lives it sucks some hidden root | R |
| It rears at last a broad green crown | G |
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| It blossoms and the children cry | H |
| 'Watch when the mango apples fall ' | - |
| It lives but rootless fruitless I | H |
| I breathe and dream and that is all | S |
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| Thus am I dead yet cannot die | H |
| But still within my foolish brain | B |
| There hangs a pale blue evening sky | H |
| A furzy croft a sandy lane | B |
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Charles Kingsley
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