The Doe: A Fragment (from Wandering Willie) Poem Rhyme Scheme

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And 'Yonder look yoho yoho	A
Nancy is off ' the farmer cried	B
Advancing by the river side	B
Red kerchieft and brown coated 'So	C
My girl who else could leap like that	D
So neatly like a lady 'Zounds	C
Look at her how she leads the hounds '	E
And waving his dusty beaver hat	D
He cheered across the chase filled water	F
And clapt his arm about his daughter	F
And gave to Joan a courteous hug	G
And kiss that like a stubborn plug	G
From generous vats in vastness rounded	H
The inner wealth and spirit sounded	H
Eagerly pointing South where lo	A
The daintiest fleetest footed doe	A
Led o'er the fields and thro' the furze	C
Beyond her lively delicate ears	C
Prickt up erect and in her track	I
A dappled lengthy striding pack	I
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Scarce had they cast eyes upon her	F
When every heart was wagered on her	F
And half in dread and half delight	J
They watched her lovely bounding flight	J
As now across the flashing green	K
And now beneath the stately trees	C
And now far distant in the dene	K
She headed on with graceful ease	C
Hanging aloft with doubled knees	C
At times athwart some hedge or gate	L
And slackening pace by slow degrees	C
As for the foremost foe to wait	L
Renewing her outstripping rate	L
Whene'er the hot pursuers neared	M
By garden wall and paled estate	L
Where clambering gazers whooped and cheered	M
Here winding under elm and oak	N
And slanting up the sunny hill	O
Splashing the water here like smoke	N
Among the mill holms round the mill	O
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And 'Let her go she shows her game	P
My Nancy girl my pet and treasure '	-
The farmer sighed his eyes with pleasure	F
Brimming ''Tis my daughter's name	P
My second daughter lying yonder '	-
And Willie's eye in search did wander	F
And caught at once with moist regard	Q
The white gleams of a grey churchyard	Q
'Three weeks before my girl had gone	K
And while upon her pillows propped	R
She lay at eve the weakling fawn	K
For still it seems a fawn just dropt	R
A se'nnight to my Nancy's bed	R
I brought to make my girl a gift	R
The mothers of them both were dead	R
And both to bless it was my drift	R
By giving each a friend not thinking	S
How rapidly my girl was sinking	S
And I remember how to pat	R
Its neck she stretched her hand so weak	T
And its cold nose against her cheek	T
Pressed fondly and I fetched the mat	R
To make it up a couch just by her	F
Where in the lone dark hours to lie	U
For neither dear old nurse nor I	U
Would any single wish deny her	F
And there unto the last it lay	V
And in the pastures cared to play	V
Little or nothing there its meals	C
And milk I brought and even now	K
The creature such affection feels	C
For that old room that when and how	K
'Tis strange to mark it slinks and steals	C
To get there and all day conceals	C
And once when nurse who since that time	W
Keeps house for me was very sick	X
Waking upon the midnight chime	W
And listening to the stair clock's click	X
I heard a rustling half uncertain	K
Close against the dark bed curtain	K
And while I thrust my leg to kick	X
And feel the phantom with my feet	R
A loving tongue began to lick	X
My left hand lying on the sheet	R
And warm sweet breath upon me blew	Y
And that 'twas Nancy then I knew	Y
So for her love I had good cause	C
To have the creature 'Nancy' christened '	-
	-
He paused and in the moment's pause	C
His eyes and Willie's strangely glistened	R
Nearer came Joan and Bessy hung	Z
With face averted near enough	A2
To hear and sob unheard the young	Z
And careless ones had scampered off	B2
Meantime and sought the loftiest place	C
To beacon the approaching chase	C
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'Daily upon the meads to browse	C
Goes Nancy with those dairy cows	C
You see behind the clematis	C
And such a favourite she is	C
That when fatigued and helter skelter	F
Among them from her foes to shelter	F
She dashes when the chase is over	F
They'll close her in and give her cover	F
And bend their horns against the hounds	C
And low and keep them out of bounds	C
From the house dogs she dreads no harm	C2
And is good friends with all the farm	C2
Man and bird and beast howbeit	R
Their natures seem so opposite	R
And she is known for many a mile	D2
And noted for her splendid style	D2
For her clear leap and quick slight hoof	E2
Welcome she is in many a roof	E2
And if I say I love her man	K
I say but little her fine eyes full	F2
Of memories of my girl at Yule	G2
And May time make her dearer than	K
Dumb brute to men has been I think	H2
So dear I do not find her dumb	I2
I know her ways her slightest wink	H2
So well and to my hand she'll come	I2
Sidelong for food or a caress	C
Just like a loving human thing	S
Nor can I help I do confess	C
Some touch of human sorrowing	S
To think there may be such a doubt	R
That from the next world she'll be shut out	R
And parted from me And well I mind	R
How when my girl's last moments came	P
Her soft eyes very soft and kind	R
She joined her hands and prayed the same	P
That she 'might meet her father mother	F
Sister Bess and each dear brother	F
And with them if it might be one	K
Who was her last companion '	-
Meaning the fawn the doe you mark	S
For my bay mare was then a foal	J2
And time has passed since then but hark '	-
	-
For like the shrieking of a soul	J2
Shut in a tomb a darkened cry	U
Of inward wailing agony	K
Surprised them and all eyes on each	K2
Fixed in the mute appealing speech	K2
Of self reproachful apprehension	K
Knowing not what to think or do	R
But Joan recovering first broke through	R
The instantaneous suspension	K
And knelt upon the ground and guessed	R
The bitterness at a glance and pressed	R
Into the comfort of her breast	R
The deep throed quaking shape that drooped	R
In misery's wilful aggravation	K
Before the farmer as he stooped	R
Touched with accusing consternation	K
Soothing her as she sobbed aloud	R
'Not me not me Oh no no no	K
Not me God will not take me in	K
Nothing can wipe away my sin	K
I shall not see her you will go	K
You and all that she loves so	K
Not me not me Oh no no no '	-
Colourless her long black hair	L2
Like seaweed in a tempest tossed	R
Tangling astray to Joan's care	L2
She yielded like a creature lost	R
Yielded drooping toward the ground	R
As doth a shape one half hour drowned	R
And heaved from sea with mast and spar	M2
All dark of its immortal star	M2
And on that tender heart inured	R
To flatter basest grief and fight	R
Despair upon the brink of night	R
She suffered herself to sink assured	R
Of refuge and her ear inclined	R
To comfort and her thoughts resigned	R
To counsel her wild hair let brush	N2
From off her weeping brows and shook	S
With many little sobs that took	S
Deeper drawn breaths till into sighs	C
Long sighs they sank and to the 'hush '	-
Of Joan's gentle chide she sought	R
Childlike to check them as she ought	R
Looking up at her infantwise	C
And Willie gazing on them both	O2
Shivered with bliss through blood and brain	K
To see the darling of his troth	O2
Like a maternal angel strain	K
The sinful and the sinless child	R
At once on either breast and there	L2
In peace and promise reconciled	R
Unite them nor could Nature's care	L2
With subtler sweet beneficence	C
Have fed the springs of penitence	C
Still keeping true though harshly tried	R
The vital prop of human pride	R