La Bouquetiere Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGG BHIHJKLKDD AMDDNOEOPP QDNDPRSTSS UDDDDVWXDD YZA2B2DC2D2E2DD DE2DE2E2DDDDD DDODE2GDGF2F2 GNDNG2DDDDD IH2DH2DDIDDD DDDDI2J2E2K2L2L2 E2UM2UIE2J2E2DD N2DE2DDO2E2O2DD E2EP2EDQ2E2Q2GGBuy my roses citizens | A |
Here are roses golden white | B |
Like the stars that lovers watch | C |
On a purple summer night | B |
Here are roses ruddy red | D |
Here are roses Cupid's pink | E |
Here are roses like his cheeks | F |
Deeper like his lips I think | E |
Vogue la galere what if they die | G |
Roses will bloom again so buy | G |
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Here is one it should be white | B |
As tho' in a playful mind | H |
Flora stole the winter snow | I |
From the sleeping north'rn wind | H |
And lest he should wake and rage | J |
Breath'd a spell of ardent pow'r | K |
On the flake and flung it down | L |
To the earth a snow white flow'r | K |
Vogue la galere 'tis stain'd with red | D |
That only means a woman's dead | D |
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Buy my flowers citizens | A |
Here's a Parma violet | M |
Ah why is my white rose red | D |
'Tis the blood of a grisette | D |
She sold her flowers by the quay | N |
Brown her eyes and fair her hair | O |
Sixteen summers old I think | E |
With a quaint Provincial air | O |
Vogue la galere she's gone the way | P |
That flesh as well as flow'rs must stray | P |
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She had a father old and lame | Q |
He wove his baskets by her side | D |
Well well 'twas fair enough to see | N |
Her look of love his glance of pride | D |
He wore a beard of shaggy grey | P |
And clumsy patches on his blouse | R |
She wore about her neck a cross | S |
And on her feet great wooden shoes | T |
Vogue la galere we have no cross | S |
Th' Republic says it's gold is dross | S |
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They had a dog old lame and lean | U |
He once had been a noble hound | D |
And day by day he lay and starv'd | D |
Or gnaw'd some bone that he had found | D |
They shar'd with him the scanty crust | D |
That barely foil'd starvation's pain | V |
He'd wag his feeble tail and turn | W |
To gnaw that polish'd bone again | X |
Vogue la galere why don't ye greet | D |
My tale with laughter prompt and meet | D |
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No fear ye'll chorus me with laughs | Y |
When draws my long jest to its close | Z |
And have for life a merry joke | A2 |
The spot of blood upon the rose | B2 |
She sold her flow'rs but what of that | D |
The child was either good or dense | C2 |
She starv'd for one she would not sell | D2 |
Patriots 'twas her innocence | E2 |
Vogue la galere poor little clod | D |
Like us she could not laugh at God | D |
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A week ago I saw a crowd | D |
Of red caps and a Tricoteuse | E2 |
Call'd as I hurried swiftly past | D |
They've taken little Wooden Shoes | E2 |
Well so they had Come laugh I say | E2 |
Your laugh with mine should come in pat | D |
For she the little sad fac'd child | D |
Was an accurs'd aristocrat | D |
Vogue la galere the Republic's said | D |
Saints angels nobles all are dead | D |
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The old man too shriek'd out the crowd | D |
She turn'd her small white face about | D |
And ye'd have laugh'd to see the air | O |
With which she fac'd that rabble rout | D |
I laugh'd I know some laughter breeds | E2 |
A merry moisture in the eye | G |
My cheeks were wet to see her hand | D |
Try to push those brawny patriots by | G |
Vogue la galere we'll laugh nor weep | F2 |
When Death not God calls us to sleep | F2 |
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Not Jean she said 'tis only I | G |
That noble am take only me | N |
I only am his foster child | D |
He nurs'd me on his knee | N |
See he is guiltless of the crime | G2 |
Of noble birth and lov'd me not | D |
Because I claim an old descent | D |
But that he nurs'd me in his cot | D |
Vogue la galere 'tis well no God | D |
Exists to look upon this sod | D |
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Believe her not he shriek'd O no | I |
I am the father of her life | H2 |
Poor Jean she said believe him not | D |
His mind with dreams is rife | H2 |
Farewell dear Jean she said I laugh'd | D |
Her air was so sedately grand | D |
Thou'st been a faithful servant so | I |
Thou well may'st kiss my hand | D |
Vogue la galere the sun is red | D |
And will be Patriots when we're dead | D |
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Child my dear child he shriek'd she turn'd | D |
And let the patriots close her round | D |
He was so lame he fell behind | D |
He and the starving hound | D |
Let him go free yell'd out the mob | I2 |
Accurs'd be these nobles all | J2 |
The poor old wretch is craz'd it seems | E2 |
Blood Citizens will pall | K2 |
Vogue la galere We can't buy wine | L2 |
So let blood flow be't thine or mine | L2 |
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I ply my trade about the Place | E2 |
Where proudly reigns La Guillotine | U |
I pile my basket up with bloom | M2 |
With mosses soft and green | U |
This morning not an hour ago | I |
I stood beside a Tricoteuse | E2 |
And saw the little fair head fall | J2 |
Off the little Wooden Shoes | E2 |
Vogue la galere By Sanson's told | D |
Into his basket dross and gold | D |
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She died alone A woman drew | N2 |
As close beside her as she might | D |
And in that woman's basket lay | E2 |
A rose all snowy white | D |
But sixteen summers old a child | D |
As one might say to die alone | O2 |
Ah well it is the only way | E2 |
These nobles can atone | O2 |
Vogue la galere here is my jest | D |
My white rose redden'd from her breast | D |
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Buy my roses Citizens | E2 |
Here's a vi'let here's a pink | E |
Deeper tint than Cupid's cheek | P2 |
Deeper than his lips I think | E |
Flora's nymphs on rosy feet | D |
Ne'er o'er brighter blossoms sprang | Q2 |
Ne'er a songster sweeter blooms | E2 |
In his sweetest rhyming sang | Q2 |
Vogue la galere Roses must die | G |
Roses will grow again so buy | G |
Isabella Valancy Crawford
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