The Gypsy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDBBEEFFGGHIJJKK DDLLMMNN| A fortnight before Christmas Gypsies were everywhere | A |
| Vans were drawn up on wastes women trailed to the fair | A |
| 'My gentleman ' said one 'you've got a lucky face ' | B |
| 'And you've a luckier ' I thought 'if such grace | C |
| And impudence in rags are lucky ' 'Give a penny | D |
| For the poor baby's sake ' 'Indeed I have not any | D |
| Unless you can give change for a sovereign my dear ' | B |
| 'Then just half a pipeful of tobacco can you spare ' | B |
| I gave it With that much victory she laughed content | E |
| I should have given more but off and away she went | E |
| With her baby and her pink sham flowers to rejoin | F |
| The rest before I could translate to its proper coin | F |
| Gratitude for her grace And I paid nothing then | G |
| As I pay nothing now with the dipping of my pen | G |
| For her brother's music when he drummed the tambourine | H |
| And stamped his feet which made the workmen passing grin | I |
| While his mouth organ changed to a rascally Bacchanal dance | J |
| 'Over the hills and far away ' This and his glance | J |
| Outlasted all the fair farmer and auctioneer | K |
| Cheap jack balloon man drover with crooked stick and steer | K |
| Pig turkey goose and duck Christmas corpses to be | D |
| Not even the kneeling ox had eyes like the Romany | D |
| That night he peopled for me the hollow wooded land | L |
| More dark and wild than the stormiest heavens that I searched and scanned | L |
| Like a ghost new arrived The gradations of the dark | M |
| Were like an underworld of death but for the spark | M |
| In the Gypsy boy's black eyes as he played and stamped his tune | N |
| 'Over the hills and far away ' and a crescent moon | N |
Edward Thomas
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