The Bailiff's Daughter Of Islington Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B A CADA EFGF HIAI JAB AKDK KLAL MNON PBA A A AA QRA CST UVO| The Text is formed by a collation of six broadsides printed between and they do not however present many variations Here if anywhere one would demand licence to make alterations and improvements In stanza the rhymes are almost certainly misplaced and the last stanza is quite superfluous It would be much more in keeping with ballad style to end with the twelfth and many of the variants now sung conclude thus This ballad is still extremely popular and not only has it been included in many selections and song books but it is also still in oral tradition | A |
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| The Story is simple and pre eminently in the popular vein Counterparts exist elsewhere in the languages derived from Latin and in Romaic | B |
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| THE BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON | A |
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| There was a youth and a well belov'd youth | C |
| And he was a squire's son | A |
| He loved the bailiff's daughter dear | D |
| That lived in Islington | A |
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| She was coy and she would not believe | E |
| That he did love her so | F |
| No nor at any time she would | G |
| Any countenance to him show | F |
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| But when his friends did understand | H |
| His fond and foolish mind | I |
| They sent him up to fair London | A |
| An apprentice for to bind | I |
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| And when he had been seven long years | J |
| And his love he had not seen | A |
| 'Many a tear have I shed for her sake | B |
| When she little thought of me ' | - |
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| All the maids of Islington | A |
| Went forth to sport and play | K |
| All but the bailiff's daughter dear | D |
| She secretly stole away | K |
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| She put off her gown of gray | K |
| And put on her puggish attire | L |
| She's up to fair London gone | A |
| Her true love to require | L |
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| As she went along the road | M |
| The weather being hot and dry | N |
| There was she aware of her true love | O |
| At length came riding by | N |
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| She stept to him as red as any rose | P |
| And took him by the bridle ring | B |
| 'I pray you kind sir give me one penny | A |
| To ease my weary limb ' | - |
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| 'I prithee sweetheart canst thou tell me | A |
| Where that thou wast born ' | - |
| 'At Islington kind sir ' said she | A |
| 'Where I have had many a scorn ' | - |
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| 'I prithee sweetheart canst thou tell me | A |
| Whether thou dost know | A |
| The bailiff's daughter of Islington ' | - |
| 'She's dead sir long ago ' | - |
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| 'Then I will sell my goodly steed | Q |
| My saddle and my bow | R |
| I will into some far country | A |
| Where no man doth me know ' | - |
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| 'O stay O stay thou goodly youth | C |
| She's alive she is not dead | S |
| Here she standeth by thy side | T |
| And is ready to be thy bride ' | - |
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| 'O farewell grief and welcome joy | U |
| Ten thousand times and more | V |
| For now I have seen my own true love | O |
| That I thought I should have seen no more ' | - |
Frank Sidgwick
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