Last Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCB DDED FFGF HHIH JKAK AALA MMHM NNON BBPBMacmillan's Magazine May | A |
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Where were you last night I watched at the gate | B |
I went down early I stayed down late | B |
Were you snug at home I should like to know | C |
Or were you in the coppice wheedling Kate | B |
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She's a fine girl with a fine clear skin | D |
Easy to woo perhaps not hard to win | D |
Speak up like a man and tell me the truth | E |
I'm not one to grow downhearted and thin | D |
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If you love her best speak up like a man | F |
It's not I will stand in the light of your plan | F |
Some girls might cry and scold you a bit | G |
And say they couldn't bear it but I can | F |
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Love was pleasant enough and the days went fast | H |
Pleasant while it lasted but it needn't last | H |
Awhile on the wax and awhile on the wane | I |
Now dropped away into the past | H |
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Was it pleasant to you To me it was | J |
Now clean gone as an image from glass | K |
As a goodly rainbow that fades away | A |
As dew that steams upward from the grass | K |
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As the first spring day or the last summer day | A |
As the sunset flush that leaves heaven grey | A |
As a flame burnt out for lack of oil | L |
Which no pains relight or ever may | A |
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Good luck to Kate and good luck to you | M |
I guess she'll be kind when you come to woo | M |
I wish her a pretty face that will last | H |
I wish her a husband steady and true | M |
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Hate you not I my very good friend | N |
All things begin and all have an end | N |
But let broken be broken I put no faith | O |
In quacks who set up to patch and mend | N |
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Just my love and one word to Kate | B |
Not to let time slip if she means to mate | B |
For even such a thing has been known | P |
As to miss the chance while we weigh and wait | B |
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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