Jessie Cameron Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCBADAD EFEFGFGFHIH JKJKLKLKHBH MNMOB BNPQPQ RERESESEFCFC ATATJTJTTATA KMKMUMUMTVTV TTTTBTBTWXWX YHYHWHWHTETE XTXTVTVTZTA2T

'Jessie Jessie CameronA
Hear me but this once ' quoth heB
'Good luck go with you neighbor's sonA
But I'm no mate for you ' quoth sheB
Day was verging toward the nightC
There beside the moaning seaB
Dimness overtook the lightC
There where the breakers beB
'O Jessie Jessie CameronA
I have loved you long and true 'D
'Good luck go with you neighbor's sonA
But I'm no mate for you 'D
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She was a careless fearless girlE
And made her answer plainF
Outspoken she to earl or churlE
Kindhearted in the mainF
But somewhat heedless with her tongueG
And apt at causing painF
A mirthful maiden she and youngG
Most fair for bliss or baneF
'Oh long ago I told you soH
I tell you so to dayI
Go you your way and let me goH
Just my own free way '-
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The sea swept in with moan and foamJ
Quickening the stretch of sandK
They stood almost in sight of homeJ
He strove to take her handK
'Oh can't you take your answer thenL
And won't you understandK
For me you're not the man of menL
I've other plans are plannedK
You're good for Madge or good for CisH
Or good for Kate may beB
But what's to me the good of thisH
While you're not good for me '-
-
They stood together on the beachM
They two aloneN
And louder waxed his urgent speechM
His patience almost goneO
'Oh say but one kind word to meB
Jessie Jessie Cameron '-
'I'd be too proud to beg ' quoth sheB
And pride was in her toneN
And pride was in her lifted headP
And in her angry eyeQ
And in her foot which might have fledP
But would not flyQ
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Some say that he had gipsy bloodR
That in his heart was guileE
Yet he had gone through fire and floodR
Only to win her smileE
Some say his grandam was a witchS
A black witch from beyond the NileE
Who kept an image in a nicheS
And talked with it the whileE
And by her hut far down the laneF
Some say they would not pass at nightC
Lest they should hear an unked strainF
Or see an unked sightC
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Alas for Jessie CameronA
The sea crept moaning moaning nigherT
She should have hastened to begoneA
The sea swept higher breaking by herT
She should have hastened to her homeJ
While yet the west was flushed with fireT
But now her feet are in the foamJ
The sea foam sweeping higherT
O mother linger at your doorT
And light your lamp to make it plainA
But Jessie she comes home no moreT
No more againA
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They stood together on the strandK
They only each by eachM
Home her home was close at handK
Utterly out of reachM
Her mother in the chimney nookU
Heard a startled sea gull screechM
But never turned her head to lookU
Towards the darkening beachM
Neighbours here and neighbours thereT
Heard one scream as if a birdV
Shrilly screaming cleft the airT
That was all they heardV
-
Jessie she comes home no moreT
Comes home neverT
Her lover's step sounds at his doorT
No more foreverT
And boats may search upon the seaB
And search along the riverT
But none know where the bodies beB
Sea winds that shiverT
Sea birds that breast the blastW
Sea waves swellingX
Keep the secret first and lastW
Of their dwellingX
-
Whether the tide so hemmed them roundY
With its pitiless flowH
That when they would have gone they foundY
No way to goH
Whether she scorned him to the lastW
With words flung to and froH
Or clung to him when hope was pastW
None will ever knowH
Whether he helped or hindered herT
Threw up his life or lost it wellE
The troubled sea for all its stirT
Finds no voice to tellE
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Only watchers by the dyingX
Have thought they heard one prayT
Wordless urgent and replyingX
One seem to say him nayT
And watchers by the dead have heardV
A windy swell from miles awayT
With sobs and screams but not a wordV
Distinct for them to sayT
And watchers out at sea have caughtZ
Glimpse of a pale gleam here or thereT
Come and gone as quick as thoughtA2
Which might be hand or hairT

Christina Georgina Rossetti



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