Ben Boyd's Tower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED DFGF AHAH IJKJ CDLD MNEN OCDC PQRQPDSD| Ben Boyd's Tower is watching | A |
| Watching o er the sea | B |
| Ben Boyd s Tower is waiting | A |
| For her and me | B |
| We do not know the day | C |
| We do not know the hour | D |
| But we know that we shall meet | E |
| By Ben Boyd s Tower | D |
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| Moonlight peoples Boyd Tower | D |
| Mystic are its walls | F |
| Lightly dance the lovers | G |
| In its haunted halls | F |
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| Ben Boyd s Tower is watching | A |
| Watching o er the foam | H |
| Ben Boyd s Tower is waiting | A |
| Till the Wanderer comes home | H |
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| O he lay above us | I |
| High above the surf | J |
| Finger nails and toe caps | K |
| Digging in the turf | J |
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| We do not know the day | C |
| We do not know the hour | D |
| But Two and Two shall meet again | L |
| By Ben Boyd s Tower | D |
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| There s an ancient dame in Eden | M |
| Basket on her arm | N |
| And she goes down the Main Street | E |
| From the old old farm | N |
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| Hood drawn on her forehead | O |
| Withered dame and grey | C |
| She never looks on Boyd Tower | D |
| Out across the Bay | C |
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| Bright eyes in the ballroom | P |
| Coquetting with two | Q |
| Just for love of mischief | R |
| As a girl will do | Q |
| A quarrel in the bar room | P |
| All within the hour | D |
| And four men rode from Boyd Town | S |
| To Ben Boyd s Tower | D |
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