Noble Sisters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEAEEFGF HIHIDJKJLMIM NOPOQGRGSTUT JVWVJXYXLZA2Z B2B2C2B2ZB2D2B2LUE2U| 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 | E |
| I marked a falcon swooping | E |
| At the break of day | F |
| And for your love my sister dove | G |
| I 'frayed the thief away | F |
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| Or did you spy a ruddy hound | H |
| Sister fair and tall | I |
| Went snuffing round my garden bound | H |
| Or crouched by my bower wall | I |
| With a silken leash about his neck | D |
| But in his mouth may be | J |
| A chain of gold and silver links | K |
| Or a letter writ to me | J |
| I heard a hound high born sister | L |
| Stood baying at the moon | M |
| I rose and drove him from your wall | I |
| Lest you should wake too soon | M |
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| Or did you meet a pretty page | N |
| Sat swinging on the gate | O |
| Sat whistling whistling like a bird | P |
| Or may be slept too late | O |
| With eaglets broidered on his cap | Q |
| And eaglets on his glove | G |
| If you had turned his pockets out | R |
| You had found some pledge of love | G |
| I met him at this daybreak | S |
| Scarce the east was red | T |
| Lest the creaking gate should anger you | U |
| I packed him home to bed | T |
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| O patience sister Did you see | J |
| A young man tall and strong | V |
| Swift footed to uphold the right | W |
| And to uproot the wrong | V |
| Come home across the desolate sea | J |
| To woo me for his wife | X |
| And in his heart my heart is locked | Y |
| And in his life my life | X |
| I met a nameless man sister | L |
| Who loitered round our door | Z |
| I said Her husband loves her much | A2 |
| And yet she loves him more | Z |
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| Fie sister fie a wicked lie | B2 |
| A lie a wicked lie | B2 |
| I have none other love but him | C2 |
| Nor will have till I die | B2 |
| And you have turned him from our door | Z |
| And stabbed him with a lie | B2 |
| I will go seek him thro' the world | D2 |
| In sorrow till I die | B2 |
| Go seek in sorrow sister | L |
| And find in sorrow too | U |
| If thus you shame our father's name | E2 |
| My curse go forth with you | U |
Christina Rossetti
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