The Dark Girl's Rhyme Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ BKBK LMLM ANAN CICI| Who was there had seen us | A |
| Wouldn't bid him run | B |
| Heavy lay between us | A |
| All our sires had done | B |
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| There he was a springing | C |
| Of a pious race | D |
| Setting hags a swinging | C |
| In a market place | D |
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| Sowing turnips over | E |
| Where the poppies lay | F |
| Looking past the clover | E |
| Adding up the hay | F |
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| Shouting through the Spring song | G |
| Clumping down the sod | H |
| Toadying in sing song | G |
| To a crabbed god | H |
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| There I was that came of | I |
| Folk of mud and name | J |
| I that had my name of | I |
| Them without a name | J |
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| Up and down a mountain | B |
| Streeled my silly stock | K |
| Passing by a fountain | B |
| Wringing at a rock | K |
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| Devil gotten sinners | L |
| Throwing back their heads | M |
| Fiddling for their dinners | L |
| Kissing for their beds | M |
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| Not a one had seen us | A |
| Wouldn't help him flee | N |
| Angry ran between us | A |
| Blood of him and me | N |
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| How shall I be mating | C |
| Who have looked above | I |
| Living for a hating | C |
| Dying of a love | I |
Dorothy Parker
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Jan Geddes: Verse 5: should be "folk of mud and FLAME, not "name".
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