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 YYZZ| Jack 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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