The Priest's Heart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEF GHI JJJJ KLM NOJ PQRQ STE UVWV| It was Sir John the fair young Priest | A |
| He strode up off the strand | B |
| But seven fisher maidens he left behind | C |
| All dancing hand in hand | B |
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| He came unto the wise wife's house | D |
| 'Now Mother to prove your art | E |
| To charm May Carleton's merry blue eyes | F |
| Out of a young man's heart ' | - |
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| 'My son you went for a holy man | G |
| Whose heart was set on high | H |
| Go sing in your psalter and read in your books | I |
| Man's love fleets lightly by ' | - |
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| 'I had liever to talk with May Carleton | J |
| Than with all the saints in Heaven | J |
| I had liever to sit by May Carleton | J |
| Than climb the spheres seven | J |
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| 'I have watched and fasted early and late | K |
| I have prayed to all above | L |
| But I find no cure save churchyard mould | M |
| For the pain which men call love ' | - |
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| 'Now Heaven forefend that ill grow worse | N |
| Enough that ill be ill | O |
| I know of a spell to draw May Carleton | J |
| And bend her to your will ' | - |
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| 'If thou didst that which thou canst not do | P |
| Wise woman though thou be | Q |
| I would run and run till I buried myself | R |
| In the surge of yonder sea | Q |
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| 'Scathless for me are maid and wife | S |
| And scathless shall they bide | T |
| Yet charm me May Carleton's eyes from the heart | E |
| That aches in my left side ' | - |
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| She charmed him with the white witchcraft | U |
| She charmed him with the black | V |
| But he turned his fair young face to the wall | W |
| Till she heard his heart strings crack | V |
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Charles Kingsley
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