A Ballad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDBABA A BEBEFGFH A BDBIJAJA| I | A |
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| I cannot rest o' the night Mother | B |
| For my heart is cold and wan | C |
| I fear the return o' light Mother | B |
| Since my own true love is gone | D |
| O winsome aye was his face Mother | B |
| And tender his bright blue eye | A |
| But his beauty and manly grace Mother | B |
| Beneath the dark earth do lie | A |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| They tell me that I am young Mother | B |
| That joy will return once more | E |
| But sorrow my heart has wrung Mother | B |
| And I feel the wound full sore | E |
| The tree at the root frost bitten | F |
| Will flourish never again | G |
| And the woe that my life hath smitten | F |
| Hath frozen each inmost vein | H |
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| III | A |
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| Whene'er the moon's shining clear Mother | B |
| I think o' my lover that's gone | D |
| Heaven seem'd to draw very near Mother | B |
| As above us in glory it shone | I |
| Ah whither hath fled all my gladness | J |
| Ah would from life I could fly | A |
| That laying me down in my sadness | J |
| I might kiss thee my Mother and die | A |
Edward Woodley Bowling
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