Madge: Ye Hoyden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACACA DEDEAEA FGHGIGI ACACACA C JAJAAAA GAGAKAK LCLCKBK ALALMMM M ALALJMJ M ANANLNL M O O M B M KAKAGLL M KPKPQPQ LJMJLJL ARARLRG MAMAAAA| At Madge ye hoyden gossips scofft | A |
| Ffor that a romping wench was shee | B |
| Now marke this rede they bade her oft | A |
| Forsooken sholde your folly bee | C |
| But Madge ye hoyden laught amp cried | A |
| Oho oho in girlish glee | C |
| And noe thing mo replied | A |
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| II | - |
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| No griffe she had nor knew no care | D |
| But gayly rompit all daies long | E |
| And like ye brooke that everywhere | D |
| Goes jinking with a gladsome song | E |
| Shee danct and songe from morn till night | A |
| Her gentil harte did know no wrong | E |
| Nor did she none despight | A |
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| III | - |
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| Sir Tomas from his noblesse halle | F |
| Did trend his path a somer's daye | G |
| And to ye hoyden he did call | H |
| And these ffull evill words did say | G |
| O wolde you weare a silken gown | I |
| And binde your haire with ribands gay | G |
| Then come with me to town | I |
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| IV | - |
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| But Madge ye hoyden shoke her head | A |
| I'le be no lemman unto thee | C |
| For all your golde and gownes shee said | A |
| ffor Robin hath bespoken mee | C |
| Then ben Sir Tomas sore despight | A |
| And back unto his hall went hee | C |
| With face as ashen white | A |
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| V | C |
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| O Robin wilt thou wed this girl | J |
| Whenas she is so vaine a sprite | A |
| So spak ffull many an envious churle | J |
| Unto that curteyse countrie wight | A |
| But Robin did not pay no heede | A |
| And they ben wed a somer night | A |
| danct upon ye meade | A |
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| VI | - |
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| Then scarse ben past a yeare amp daye | G |
| Whan Robin toke unto his bed | A |
| And long long time therein he lay | G |
| Nor colde not work to earn his bread | A |
| in soche an houre whan times ben sore | K |
| Sr Tomas came with haughtie tread | A |
| knockit at ye doore | K |
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| VII | - |
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| Saies Madge ye hoyden do you know | L |
| how that you once despighted me | C |
| But He forgiff an you will go | L |
| my swete harte lady ffor to bee | C |
| But Madge ye hoyden heard noe more | K |
| straightway upon her heele turnt shee | B |
| shote ye cottage doore | K |
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| VIII | - |
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| Soe Madge ye hoyden did her parte | A |
| whiles that ye years did come and go | L |
| 't was somer allwais in her harte | A |
| tho' winter strewed her head with snowe | L |
| She toilt and span thro' all those years | M |
| nor bid repine that it ben soe | M |
| nor never shad noe teares | M |
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| IX | M |
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| Whiles Robin lay within his bed | A |
| A divell came and whispered lowe | L |
| Giff you will doe my will he said | A |
| None more of sickness you shall knowe | L |
| Ye which gave joy to Robin's soul | J |
| Saies Robin Divell be it soe | M |
| an that you make me whoale | J |
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| X | M |
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| That day upp rising ffrom his bed | A |
| Quoth Robin I am well again | N |
| backe he came as from ye dead | A |
| amp he ben mickle blithe as when | N |
| he wooed his doxy long ago | L |
| amp Madge did make ado amp then | N |
| Her teares ffor joy did flowe | L |
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| XI | M |
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| Then came that hell born cloven thing | O |
| Saies Robin I do claim your life | - |
| and I hencefoorth shall be your king | O |
| and you shall do my evill strife | - |
| Look round about and you shall see | M |
| sr Tomas' young and ffoolish wiffe | - |
| a comely dame is shee | B |
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| XII | M |
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| Ye divell had him in his power | K |
| and not colde Robin say thereto | A |
| Soe Robin from that very houre | K |
| did what that divell bade him do | A |
| He wooed and dipt and on a daye | G |
| Sr Tomas' wife and Robin flewe | L |
| a many leagues away | L |
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| XIII | M |
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| Sir Tomas ben wood wroth and swore | K |
| And sometime strode thro' leaf amp brake | P |
| and knockit at ye cottage door | K |
| and thus to Madge ye hoyden spake | P |
| Saies I wolde have you ffor mine own | Q |
| So come with mee amp bee my make | P |
| syn tother birds ben flown | Q |
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| XIV | - |
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| But Madge ye hoyden bade him noe | L |
| Saies Robin is my swete harte still | J |
| And tho' he doth despight me soe | M |
| I mean to do him good for ill | J |
| So goe Sir Tomas goe your way | L |
| ffor whiles I bee on live I will | J |
| ffor Robin's coming pray | L |
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| XV | - |
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| Soe Madge ye hoyden kneelt amp prayed | A |
| that Godde sholde send her Robin backe | R |
| And tho' ye folke vast scoffing made | A |
| and tho' ye worlde ben colde and blacke | R |
| And tho' as moneths dragged away | L |
| ye hoyden's harte ben like to crack | R |
| With griff she still did praye | G |
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| XVI | - |
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| Sicke of that divell's damned charmes | M |
| Aback did Robin come at last | A |
| And Madge ye hoyden sprad her arms | M |
| and gave a cry and held him fast | A |
| And as she clong to him and cried | A |
| her patient harte with joy did brast | A |
| Madge ye hoyden died | A |
Eugene Field
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