Margery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAA CDCDD AEAFA GHGHH IJJIJ KLLKK MNNON PAPAA QRRQQ STSTT UVVUU| What shall we do with Margery | A |
| She lies and cries upon her bed | B |
| All lily pale from foot to head | B |
| Her heart is sore as sore can be | A |
| Poor guileless shamefaced Margery | A |
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| A foolish girl to love a man | C |
| And let him know she loved him so | D |
| She should have tried a different plan | C |
| Have loved but not have let him know | D |
| Then he perhaps had loved her so | D |
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| What can we do with Margery | A |
| Who has no relish for her food | E |
| We'd take her with us to the sea | A |
| Across the sea but where's the good | F |
| She'd fret alike on land and sea | A |
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| Yes what the neighbours say is true | G |
| Girls should not make themselves so cheap | H |
| But now it's done what can we do | G |
| I hear her moaning in her sleep | H |
| Moaning and sobbing in her sleep | H |
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| I think and I'm of flesh and blood | I |
| Were I that man for whom she cares | J |
| I would not cost her tears and prayers | J |
| To leave her just alone like mud | I |
| Fretting her simple heart with cares | J |
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| A year ago she was a child | K |
| Now she's a woman in her grief | L |
| The year's now at the falling leaf | L |
| At budding of the leaves she smiled | K |
| Poor foolish harmless foolish child | K |
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| It was her own fault so it was | M |
| If every own fault found us out | N |
| Dogged us and snared us round about | N |
| What comfort should we take because | O |
| Not half our due we thus wrung out | N |
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| At any rate the question stands | P |
| What now to do with Margery | A |
| A weak poor creature on our hands | P |
| Something we must do I'll not see | A |
| Her blossom fade sweet Margery | A |
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| Perhaps a change may after all | Q |
| Prove best for her to leave behind | R |
| Those home sights seen time out of mind | R |
| To get beyond the narrow wall | Q |
| Of home and learn home is not all | Q |
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| Perhaps this way she may forget | S |
| Not all at once but in a while | T |
| May come to wonder how she set | S |
| Her heart on this slight thing and smile | T |
| At her own folly in a while | T |
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| Yet this I say and I maintain | U |
| Were I the man she's fretting for | V |
| I should my very self abhor | V |
| If I could leave her to her pain | U |
| Uncomforted to tears and pain | U |
Christina Rossetti
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