Fair Margaret And Sweet William Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGH IJKL MNGG GNGG ONGN PG G KG G QDKG KRST GGUG GTVT SWGW GGXG QYGY GZA2Z QKB2K C2KGD2 E2F2G2F| As it fell out on a long summer's day | A |
| Two lovers they sat on a hill | B |
| They sat together that long summer's day | A |
| And could not talk their fill | B |
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| I see no harm by you Margaret | C |
| And you see none by mee | D |
| Before to morrow at eight o' the clock | E |
| A rich wedding you shall see | D |
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| Fair Margaret sat in her bower wind w | - |
| Combing her yellow hair | F |
| There she spyed sweet William and his bride | G |
| As they were a riding near | H |
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| Then down she layd her ivory combe | I |
| And braided her hair in twain | J |
| She went alive out of her bower | K |
| But ne'er came alive in't again | L |
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| When day was gone and night was come | M |
| And all men fast asleep | N |
| Then came the spirit of Fair Marg'ret | G |
| And stood at William's feet | G |
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| Are you awake sweet William shee said | G |
| Or sweet William are you asleep | N |
| God give you joy of your gay bride bed | G |
| And me of my winding sheet | G |
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| When day was come and night was gone | O |
| And all men wak'd from sleep | N |
| Sweet William to his lady sayd | G |
| My dear I have cause to weep | N |
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| I dreamt a dream my dear ladye | P |
| Such dreames are never good | G |
| I dreamt my bower was full of red 'wine ' | - |
| And my bride bed full of blood | G |
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| Such dreams such dreams my honoured sir | K |
| They never do prove good | G |
| To dream thy bower was full of red 'wine ' | - |
| And thy bride bed full of blood | G |
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| He called up his merry men all | Q |
| By one by two and by three | D |
| Saying I'll away to fair Marg'ret's bower | K |
| By the leave of my ladie | G |
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| And when he came to fair Marg'ret's bower | K |
| He knocked at the ring | R |
| And who so ready as her seven brethren | S |
| To let sweet William in | T |
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| Then he turned up the covering sheet | G |
| Pray let me see the dead | G |
| Methinks she looks all pale and wan | U |
| She hath lost her cherry red | G |
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| I'll do more for thee Margaret | G |
| Than any of thy kin | T |
| For I will kiss thy pale wan lips | V |
| Though a smile I cannot win | T |
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| With that bespake the seven brethren | S |
| Making most piteous mone | W |
| You may go kiss your jolly brown bride | G |
| And let our sister alone | W |
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| If I do kiss my jolly brown bride | G |
| I do but what is right | G |
| I ne'er made a vow to yonder poor corpse | X |
| By day nor yet by night | G |
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| Deal on deal on my merry men all | Q |
| Deal on your cake and your wine | Y |
| For whatever is dealt at her funeral to day | G |
| Shall be dealt to morrow at mine | Y |
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| Fair Margaret dyed to day to day | G |
| Sweet William dyed the morrow | Z |
| Fair Margaret dyed for pure true love | A2 |
| Sweet William dyed for sorrow | Z |
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| Margaret was buryed in the lower chancel | Q |
| And William in the higher | K |
| Out of her brest there sprang a rose | B2 |
| And out of his a briar | K |
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| They grew till they grew unto the church top | C2 |
| And then they could grow no higher | K |
| And there they tyed in a true lover's knot | G |
| Which made all the people admire | D2 |
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| Then came the clerk of the parish | E2 |
| As you the truth shall hear | F2 |
| And by misfortune cut them down | G2 |
| Or they had now been there | F |
George Wharton Edwards
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