The Old Witch In The Copse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHIHCJGJCKCK CCCDLMNMOPCPCQRQSTUTI am a Witch and a kind old Witch | A |
There's many a one knows that | B |
Alone I live in my little dark house | C |
With Pillycock my cat | B |
A girl came running through the night | D |
When all the winds blew free | E |
'O mother change a young man's heart | F |
That will not look on me | E |
O mother brew a magic mead | G |
To stir his heart so cold ' | H |
'Just as you will my dear ' said I | I |
'And I thank you for your gold ' | H |
So here am I in the wattled copse | C |
Where all the twigs are brown | J |
To find what I need to brew my mead | G |
As the dark of night comes down | J |
Primroses in my old hands | C |
Sweet to smell and young | K |
And violets blue that spring in the grass | C |
Wherever the larks have sung | K |
With celandines as heavenly crowns | C |
Yellowy gold and bright All of these | C |
O all of these | C |
Shall bring her Love's delight | D |
But orchids growing snakey green | L |
Speckled dark with blood | M |
And fallen leaves that curled and shrank | N |
And rotted in the mud | M |
With blistering nettles burning harsh | O |
And blinding thorns above | P |
All of these O all of these | C |
Shall bring the pains of Love | P |
Shall bring the pains of Love my Puss | C |
That cease not night or day | Q |
The bitter rage nought can assuage | R |
Till it bleeds the heart away | Q |
Pillycock mine my hands are full | S |
My pot is on the fire | T |
Purr my pet this fool shall get | U |
Her fool's desire | T |
Frances Darwin Cornford
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