The Puritan's Ballad Poem Rhyme Scheme

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My love came up from Barnegat	A
The sea was in his eyes	B
He trod as softly as a cat	A
And told me terrible lies	B
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His hair was yellow as new cut pine	C
In shavings curled and feathered	A
I thought how silver it would shine	C
By cruel winters weathered	A
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But he was in his twentieth year	D
Ths time I'm speaking of	E
We were head over heels in love with fear	D
And half a feared of love	E
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My hair was piled in a copper crown	F
A devilish living thing	G
And the tortise shell pins fell down fell down	F
When that snake uncoiled to spring	G
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His feet were used to treading a gale	H
And balancing thereon	I
His face was as brown as a foreign sail	H
Threadbare against the sun	J
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His arms were thick as hickory logs	K
Whittled to little wrists	L
Strong as the teeth of a terrier dog	M
Were the fingers of his fists	L
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Within his arms I feared to sink	N
Where lions shook their manes	O
And dragons drawn in azure ink	N
Lept quickened by his veins	O
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Dreadful his strength and length of limb	P
As the sea to foundering ships	Q
I dipped my hands in love for him	P
No deeper than the tips	Q
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But our palms were welded by a flame	R
The moment we came to part	A
And on his knuckles I read my name	R
Enscrolled with a heart	A
	-
And something made our wills to bend	A
As wild as trees blown over	S
We were no longer friend and friend	A
But only lover and lover	S
	-
In seven weeks or seventy years	T
God grant it may be sooner	S
I'll make a hankerchief for you	U
From the sails of my captain's schooner	S
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We'll wear our loves like wedding rings	V
Long polished to our touch	W
We shall be busy with other things	V
And they cannot bother us much	W
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When you are skimming the wrinkled cream	X
And your ring clinks on the pan	Y
You'll say to yourself in a pensive dream	X
'How wonderful a man '	-
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When I am slitting a fish's head	A
And my ring clanks on the knife	Z
I'll say with thanks as a prayer is said	A
'How beautiful a wife '	-
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And I shall fold my decorous paws	A2
In velvet smooth and deep	B2
Like a kitten that covers up its claws	A2
To sleep and sleep and sleep	B2
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Like a little blue pigeon you shall bow	C2
Your bright alarming crest	A
In the crook of my arm you'll lay your brow	C2
To rest and rest and rest	A
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Will he never come back from Barnegat	A
With thunder in his eyes	B
Treading as soft as a tiger cat	A
To tell me terrible lies	B

Elinor Morton Wylie

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