Noble Sisters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEAFEGHF IJIJDKL MNJ OPQPRHS TUV KWXWKYZ MA2B2 C2C2D2C2A2C2E2 MVF2| 'Now did you mark a falcon | A |
| Sister dear sister dear | B |
| Flying toward my window | C |
| In the morning cool and clear | B |
| With jingling bells about her neck | D |
| But what beneath her wing | E |
| It may have been a ribbon | A |
| Or it may have been a ring ' | F |
| 'I marked a falcon swooping | E |
| At the break of day | G |
| And for your love my sister dove | H |
| I 'frayed the thief away ' | F |
| - | |
| 'Or did you spy a ruddy hound | I |
| Sister fair and tall | J |
| Went snuffing round my garden bound | I |
| Or crouched by my bower wall | J |
| With a silken leash about his neck | D |
| But in his mouth may be | K |
| A chain of gold and silver links | L |
| Or a letter writ to me ' | - |
| 'I heard a hound highborn sister | M |
| Stood baying at the moon | N |
| I rose and drove him from your wall | J |
| Lest you should wake too soon ' | - |
| - | |
| 'Or did you meet a pretty page | O |
| Sat swinging on the gate | P |
| Sat whistling whistling like a bird | Q |
| Or may be slept too late | P |
| With eaglets broidered on his cap | R |
| And eaglets on his glove | H |
| If you had turned his pockets out | S |
| You had found some pledge of love ' | - |
| 'I met him at this daybreak | T |
| Scarce the east was red | U |
| Lest the creaking gate should anger you | V |
| I packed him home to bed ' | - |
| - | |
| 'Oh patience sister Did you see | K |
| A young man tall and strong | W |
| Swift footed to uphold the right | X |
| And to uproot the wrong | W |
| Come home across the desolate sea | K |
| To woo me for his wife | Y |
| And in his heart my heart is locked | Z |
| And in his life my life ' | - |
| 'I met a nameless man sister | M |
| Hard by your chamber door | A2 |
| I said Her husband loves her much | B2 |
| And yet she loves him more ' | - |
| - | |
| 'Fie sister fie a wicked lie | C2 |
| A lie a wicked lie | C2 |
| I have none other love but him | D2 |
| Nor will have till I die | C2 |
| And you have turned him from our door | A2 |
| And stabbed him with a lie | C2 |
| I will go seek him thro' the world | E2 |
| In sorrow till I die ' | - |
| 'Go seek in sorrow sister | M |
| And find in sorrow too | V |
| If thus you shame our father's name | F2 |
| My curse go forth with you ' | - |
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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