How Robin And His Outlaws Lived In The Woods Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE FBBB GHEH GFBF DIFI JFBF KFBF BLBL BBFB FFMF NGFG FOFO PMFQ FBRB GSTA UFBF VTAT BFFF WXYZ| Robin and his merry men | A |
| Lived just like the birds | B |
| They had almost as many tracks as thoughts | C |
| And whistles and songs as words | B |
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| Up they were with the earliest sign | D |
| Of the sun's up looking eye | E |
| But not an archer breakfasted | F |
| Till he twinkled from the sky | E |
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| All the morning they were wont | F |
| To fly their grey goose quills | B |
| At butts or wands or trees or twigs | B |
| Till theirs was the skill of skills | B |
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| With swords too they played lustily | G |
| And at quarter staff | H |
| Many a hit would have made some cry | E |
| Which only made them laugh | H |
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| The horn was then their dinner bell | G |
| When like princes of the wood | F |
| Under the glimmering summer trees | B |
| Pure venison was their food | F |
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| Pure venison and a little wine | D |
| Except when the skies were rough | I |
| Or when they had a feasting day | F |
| For their blood was wine enough | I |
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| And story then and joke and song | J |
| And Harry's harp went round | F |
| And sometimes they'd get up and dance | B |
| For pleasure of the sound | F |
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| Tingle tangle said the harp | K |
| As they footed in and out | F |
| Good lord it was a sight to see | B |
| Their feathers float about | F |
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| A pleasant sight especially | B |
| If Margery was there | L |
| Or little Ciss or laughing Bess | B |
| Or Moll with the clumps of hair | L |
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| Or any other merry lass | B |
| From the neighbouring villages | B |
| Who came with milk and eggs or fruit | F |
| A singing through the trees | B |
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| For all the country round about | F |
| Was fond of Robin Hood | F |
| With whom they got a share of more | M |
| Than the acorns in the wood | F |
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| Nor ever would he suffer harm | N |
| To woman above all | G |
| No plunder were she ne'er so great | F |
| No fright to great or small | G |
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| No not a single kiss unliked | F |
| Nor one look saddening clip | O |
| Accurst be he said Robin Hood | F |
| Makes pale a woman's lip | O |
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| Only on the haughty rich | P |
| And on their unjust store | M |
| He'd lay his fines of equity | F |
| For his merry men and the poor | Q |
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| And special was his joy no doubt | F |
| Which made the dish to curse | B |
| To light upon a good fat friar | R |
| And carve him of his purse | B |
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| A monk to him was a toad in the hole | G |
| And an abbot a pig in grain | S |
| But a bishop was a baron of beef | T |
| With cut and come again | A |
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| Never poor man came for help | U |
| And wnet away denied | F |
| Never woman for redress | B |
| And went away wet eyed | F |
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| Says Robin to the poor who came | V |
| To ask of him relief | T |
| You do but get your goods again | A |
| That were altered by the thief | T |
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| There ploughman is a sheaf of your's | B |
| Turned to yellow gold | F |
| And miller there's your last year's rent | F |
| 'Twill wrap thee from the cold | F |
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| And you there Wat of Lancashire | W |
| Who such a way have come | X |
| Get upon your land tax man | Y |
| And ride it merrily home | Z |
James Henry Leigh Hunt
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