The End Of May Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DBC BEBE BFBF GHGH GIBI BJBJ KLKL MNON KMKM GBGB BPB Q QR FBSPF| 'Our governess is not in school | A |
| So we may talk a bit | B |
| Sit down upon this little stool | A |
| Come little Mary sit | B |
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| 'And my dear playmate tell me why | C |
| In dismal black you're drest | B |
| Why does the tear stand in your eye | C |
| With sobs why heaves your breast | B |
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| 'When we're in grief it gives relief | D |
| Our sorrows to impart | B |
| When you've told why my dear you cry | C |
| 'Twill ease your little heart ' | - |
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| 'O it is trouble very bad | B |
| Which causes me to weep | E |
| All last night long we were so sad | B |
| Not one of us could sleep | E |
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| 'Beyond the seas my father went | B |
| 'Twas very long ago | F |
| And he last week a letter sent | B |
| I told you so you know | F |
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| 'That he was safe in Portsmouth bay | G |
| And we should see him soon | H |
| Either the latter end of May | G |
| Or by the first of June | H |
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| 'The end of May was yesterday | G |
| We all expected him | I |
| And in our best clothes we were dressed | B |
| Susan and I and Jim | I |
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| 'O how my poor dear mother smiled | B |
| And clapped her hands for joy | J |
| She said to me 'Come here my child | B |
| And Susan and my boy | J |
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| ''Come all and let us think ' said she | K |
| 'What we can do to please | L |
| Your father for to day will he | K |
| Come home from off the seas | L |
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| ''That you have won my dear young son | M |
| A prize at school we'll tell | N |
| Because you can my little man | O |
| In writing all excel | N |
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| ''And you have made a poem nearly | K |
| All of your own invention | M |
| Will not your father love you dearly | K |
| When this to him I mention | M |
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| ''Your sister Mary she can say | G |
| Your poetry by heart | B |
| And to repeat your verses may | G |
| Be little Mary's part | B |
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| ''Susan for you I'll say you do | B |
| Your needlework with care | P |
| And stitch so true the wristbands new | B |
| Dear father's soon to wear ' | - |
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| ''O hark ' said James 'I hear one speak | Q |
| 'Tis like a seaman's voice ' | - |
| Our mother gave a joyful shriek | Q |
| How did we all rejoice | R |
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| ''My husband's come ' 'My father's here ' | - |
| But O alas it was not so | F |
| It was not as we said | B |
| A stranger seaman did appear | S |
| On his rough cheek there stood a tear | P |
| For he brought to us a tale of woe | F |
| Our father dear was dead ' | - |
Charles Lamb
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