Lady Alice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C DEFE B G BHIH JKL MNEN OPQR| The Text of this little ballad is given from Bell's Ancient Poems Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England | A |
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| It should be compared with Lord Lovel | B |
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| LADY ALICE | C |
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| Lady Alice was sitting in her bower window | D |
| At midnight mending her quoif | E |
| And there she saw as fine a corpse | F |
| As ever she saw in her life | E |
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| 'What bear ye what bear ye ye six men tall | B |
| What bear ye on your shoulders ' | - |
| 'We bear the corpse of Giles Collins | G |
| An old and true lover of yours ' | - |
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| 'O lay him down gently ye six men tall | B |
| All on the grass so green | H |
| And to morrow when the sun goes down | I |
| Lady Alice a corpse shall be seen | H |
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| 'And bury me in Saint Mary's church | J |
| All for my love so true | K |
| And make me a garland of marjoram | L |
| And of lemon thyme and rue ' | - |
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| Giles Collins was buried all in the east | M |
| Lady Alice all in the west | N |
| And the roses that grew on Giles Collins's grave | E |
| They reached Lady Alice's breast | N |
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| The priest of the parish he chanced to pass | O |
| And he severed those roses in twain | P |
| Sure never were seen such true lovers before | Q |
| Nor e'er will there be again | R |
Frank Sidgwick
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