Last Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA CCDC EEFE GGHG IJKJ KKLK MMGM NNON AAPA| Where were you last night I watched at the gate | A |
| I went down early I stayed down late | A |
| Were you snug at home I should like to know | B |
| Or were you in the coppice wheedling Kate | A |
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| She's a fine girl with a fine clear skin | C |
| Easy to woo perhaps not hard to win | C |
| Speak up like a man and tell me the truth | D |
| I'm not one to grow downhearted and thin | C |
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| If you love her best speak up like a man | E |
| It's not I will stand in the light of your plan | E |
| Some girls might cry and scold you a bit | F |
| And say they couldn't bear it but I can | E |
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| Love was pleasant enough and the days went fast | G |
| Pleasant while it lasted but it needn't last | G |
| Awhile on the wax and awhile on the wane | H |
| Now dropped away into the past | G |
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| Was it pleasant to you to me it was | I |
| Now clean gone as an image from glass | J |
| As a goodly rainbow that fades away | K |
| As dew that steams upwards from the grass | J |
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| As the first spring day or the last summer day | K |
| As the sunset flush that leaves heaven grey | K |
| As a flame burnt out for lack of oil | L |
| Which no pains relight or ever may | K |
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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 | G |
| 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 | A |
| Not to let time slip if she means to mate | A |
| For even such a thing has been known | P |
| As to miss the chance while we weigh and wait | A |
Christina Rossetti
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