Brandons Both Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLMK ININ MLKL MOKO PQPQ ERES TUTU VWVW HXHX IYIZ TETE HOHA2 BUBU GFZF| Oh fair Milly Brandon a young maid a fair maid | A |
| All her curls are yellow and her eyes are blue | B |
| And her cheeks were rosy red till a secret care made | A |
| Hollow whiteness of their brightness as a care will do | B |
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| Still she tends her flowers but not as in the old days | C |
| Still she sings her songs but not the songs of old | D |
| If now it be high Summer her days seem brief and cold days | C |
| If now it be high Summer her nights are long and cold | D |
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| If you have a secret keep it pure maid Milly | E |
| Life is filled with troubles and the world with scorn | F |
| And pity without love is at best times hard and chilly | E |
| Chilling sore and stinging sore a heart forlorn | F |
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| Walter Brandon do you guess Milly Brandon's secret | G |
| Many things you know but not everything | H |
| With your locks like raven's plumage and eyes like an egret | G |
| And a laugh that is music and such a voice to sing | H |
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| Nelly Knollys she is fair but she is not fairer | I |
| Than fairest Milly Brandon was before she turned so pale | J |
| Oh but Nelly's dearer if she be not rarer | I |
| She need not keep a secret or blush behind a veil | J |
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| Beyond the first green hills beyond the nearest valleys | K |
| Nelly dwells at home beneath her mother's eyes | L |
| Her home is neat and homely not a cot and not a palace | M |
| Just the home where love sets up his happiest memories | K |
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| Milly has no mother and sad beyond another | I |
| Is she whose blessed mother is vanished out of call | N |
| Truly comfort beyond comfort is stored up in a mother | I |
| Who bears with all and hopes through all and loves us all | N |
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| Where peacocks nod and flaunt up and down the terrace | M |
| Furling and unfurling their scores of sightless eyes | L |
| To and fro among the leaves and buds and flowers and berries | K |
| Maiden Milly strolls and pauses smiles and sighs | L |
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| On the hedged in terrace of her father's palace | M |
| She may stroll and muse alone may smile or sigh alone | O |
| Letting thoughts and eyes go wandering over hills and valleys | K |
| To day her father's and one day to be all her own | O |
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| If her thoughts go coursing down lowlands and up highlands | P |
| It is because the startled game are leaping from their lair | Q |
| If her thoughts dart homeward to the reedy river islands | P |
| It is because the waterfowl rise startled here or there | Q |
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| At length a footfall on the steps she turns composed and steady | E |
| All the long descended greatness of her father's house | R |
| Lifting up her head and there stands Walter keen and ready | E |
| For hunting or for hawking a flush upon his brows | S |
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| Good morrow fair cousin Good morrow fairest cousin | T |
| The sun has started on his course and I must start to day | U |
| If you have done me one good turn you've done me many a dozen | T |
| And I shall often think of you think of you away | U |
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| Over hill and hollow what quarry will you follow | V |
| Or what fish will you angle for beside the river's edge | W |
| There's cloud upon the hill top and there 's mist deep down the hollow | V |
| And fog among the rushes and the rustling sedge | W |
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| I shall speed well enough be it hunting or hawking | H |
| Or casting a bait towards the shyest daintiest fin | X |
| But I kiss your hands my cousin I must not loiter talking | H |
| For nothing comes of nothing and I'm fain to seek and win | X |
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| Here's a thorny rose will you wear it an hour | I |
| Till the petals drop apart still fresh and pink and sweet | Y |
| Till the petals drop from the drooping perished flower | I |
| And only the graceless thorns are left of it | Z |
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| Nay I have another rose sprung in another garden | T |
| Another rose which sweetens all the world for me | E |
| Be you a tenderer mistress and be you a warier warden | T |
| Of your rose as sweet as mine and full as fair to see | E |
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| Nay a bud once plucked there is no reviving | H |
| Nor is it worth your wearing now nor worth indeed my own | O |
| The dead to the dead and the living to the living | H |
| It's time I go within for it's time now you were gone | A2 |
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| Good bye Milly Brandon I shall not forget you | B |
| Though it be good bye between us for ever from to day | U |
| I could almost wish to day that I had never met you | B |
| And I'm true to you in this one word that I say | U |
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| Good bye Walter I can guess which thornless rose you covet | G |
| Long may it bloom and prolong its sunny morn | F |
| Yet as for my one thorny rose I do not cease to love it | Z |
| And if it is no more a flower I love it as a thorn | F |
Christina Rossetti
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