Maggie A Lady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FBFB GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPOP QFQF RSRS TBTB UVUV| You must not call me Maggie you must not call me Dear | A |
| For I'm Lady of the Manor now stately to see | B |
| And if there comes a babe as there may some happy year | A |
| 'T will be little lord or lady at my knee | B |
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| O but what ails you my sailor cousin Phil | C |
| That you shake and turn white like a cockcrow ghost | D |
| You're as white as I turned once down by the mill | C |
| When one told me you and ship and crew were lost | E |
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| Philip my playfellow when we were boy and girl | F |
| It was the Miller's Nancy told it to me | B |
| Philip with the merry life in lip and curl | F |
| Philip my playfellow drowned in the sea | B |
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| I thought I should have fainted but I did not faint | G |
| I stood stunned at the moment scarcely sad | H |
| Till I raised my wail of desolate complaint | G |
| For you my cousin brother all I had | H |
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| They said I looked so pale some say so fair | I |
| My lord stopped in passing to soothe me back to life | J |
| I know I missed a ringlet from my hair | I |
| Next morning and now I am his wife | J |
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| Look at my gown Philip and look at my ring | K |
| I'm all crimson and gold from top to toe | L |
| All day long I sit in the sun and sing | K |
| Where in the sun red roses blush and blow | L |
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| And I'm the rose of roses says my lord | M |
| And to him I'm more than the sun in the sky | N |
| While I hold him fast with the golden cord | M |
| Of a curl with the eyelash of an eye | N |
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| His mother said fie and his sisters cried shame | O |
| His high born ladies cried shame from their place | P |
| They said fie when they only heard my name | O |
| But fell silent when they saw my face | P |
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| Am I so fair Philip Philip did you think | Q |
| I was so fair when we played boy and girl | F |
| Where blue forget me nots bloomed on the brink | Q |
| Of our stream which the mill wheel sent awhirl | F |
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| If I was fair then sure I'm fairer now | R |
| Sitting where a score of servants stand | S |
| With a coronet on high days for my brow | R |
| And almost a sceptre for my hand | S |
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| You're but a sailor Philip weatherbeaten brown | T |
| A stranger on land and at home on the sea | B |
| Coasting as best you may from town to town | T |
| Coasting along do you often think of me | B |
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| I'm a great lady in a sheltered bower | U |
| With hands grown white through having naught to do | V |
| Yet sometimes I think of you hour after hour | U |
| Till I nigh wish myself a child with you | V |
Christina Rossetti
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