Dialogue In Verse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE DEDE FGFG HEIE JKLK MNMN OPQP IAIA RSSSG GJGJ GTG TGUGU VJVJ EWEWGG HGIGGG N NXX YYZZJack Seest thou not yon farmer's son | A |
He hath stoln my love from me alas | B |
What shall I do I am undone | A |
My heart will ne'er be as it was | C |
O but he gives her gay gold rings | D |
And tufted gloves for holiday | E |
And many other goodly things | D |
That hath stoln my love away | E |
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Friend Let him give her gay gold rings | D |
Or tufted gloves were they ne'er so gay | E |
F or were her lovers lords or kings | D |
They should not carry the wench away | E |
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Jack But 'a dances wonders well | F |
And with his dances stole her love from me | G |
Yet she wont to say I bore the bell | F |
For dancing and for courtesy | G |
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Dick Fie lusty younker what do you here | H |
Not dancing on the green to day | E |
For Pierce the farmer's son I fear | I |
Is like to carry your wench away | E |
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Jack Good Dick bid them all come hither | J |
And tell Pierce from me beside | K |
That if he thinks to have the wench | L |
Here he stands shall lie with the bride | K |
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Dick Fie Nan why use thy old lover so | M |
For any other new come guest | N |
Thou long time his love did know | M |
Why shouldst thou not use him best | N |
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Nan Bonny Dick I will not forsake | O |
My bonny Rowland for any gold | P |
If he can dance as well as Pierce | Q |
He shall have my heart in hold | P |
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Pierce Why then my hearts let's to this gear | I |
And by dancing I may won | A |
My Nan whose love I hold so dear | I |
As any realm under the sun | A |
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Gentleman Then gentles ere I speed from hence | R |
I will be so bold to dance | S |
A turn or two without offence | S |
For as I was walking along by chance | S |
I was told you did agree | G |
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Friend 'Tis true good sir and this is she | G |
Hopes your worship comes not to crave her | J |
For she hath lovers two or three | G |
And he that dances best must have her | J |
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Gentleman How say you sweet will you dance with me | G |
And you shall have both land and hill | T |
My love shall want nor gold nor fee | G |
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Nan I thank you sir for your good will | T |
But one of these my love must be | G |
I'm but a homely country maid | U |
And far unfit for your degree | G |
To dance with you I am afraid | U |
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Friend Take her good sir by the hand | V |
As she is fairest were she fairer | J |
By this dance you shall understand | V |
He that can win her is like to wear her | J |
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Fool And saw you not my Nan to day | E |
My mother's maid have you not seen | W |
My pretty Nan is gone away | E |
To seek her love upon the green | W |
I cannot see her 'mong so many | G |
She shall have me if she have any | G |
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Nan Welcome sweetheart and welcome here | H |
Welcome my true love now to me | G |
This is my love and my darling dear | I |
And that my husband soon must be | G |
And boy when thou com'st home thou'lt see | G |
Thou art as welcome home as he | G |
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Gentleman Why how now sweet Nan I hope you jest | N |
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Nan No by my troth I love the fool the best | N |
And if you be jealous God give you good night | X |
I fear you're a gelding you caper so light | X |
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Gentleman I thought she had jested and meant but a fable | Y |
But now do I see she hath play 'd with his bable | Y |
I wish all my friends by me to take heed | Z |
That a fool come not near you when you mean to speed | Z |
Christopher Marlowe
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