The Dark Girl's Rhyme Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ BKBK LMLM ANAN CICIWho 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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