Barbara Allen's Cruelty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DBEC FBGB HCIB JBKC LBMC NB OC PQAQ| All in the merry month of May | A |
| When green buds they were swelling | B |
| Young Jemmy Grove on his death bed lay | A |
| For love o' Barbara Allen | C |
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| He sent his man unto her then | D |
| To the town where she was dwelling | B |
| O haste and come to my master dear | E |
| If your name be Barbara Allen | C |
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| Slowly slowly rase she up | F |
| And she cam' where he was lying | B |
| And when she drew the curtain by | G |
| Says Young man I think you're dying | B |
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| O it's I am sick and very very sick | H |
| And it's a' for Barbara Allen | C |
| O the better for me ye'se never be | I |
| Tho' your heart's blude were a spilling | B |
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| O dinna ye min' young man she says | J |
| When the red wine ye were filling | B |
| That ye made the healths gae round and round | K |
| And ye slighted Barbara Allen | C |
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| He turn'd his face unto the wa' | L |
| And death was wi' him dealing | B |
| Adieu adieu my dear friends a' | M |
| Be kind to Barbara Allen | C |
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| As she was walking o'er the fields | N |
| She heard the dead bell knelling | B |
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| And every jow the dead bell gave | O |
| It cried Woe to Barbara Allen | C |
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| O mother mother mak' my bed | P |
| To lay me down in sorrow | Q |
| My love has died for me to day | A |
| I'll die for him to morrow | Q |
George Wharton Edwards
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