The Squire's Daughter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EEEE FGFH IBIB JKJK LKLK MJMJ NONO PQPQ KRKR KQKQ SDRT UKUK| We crawled about the nursery | A |
| In tenderest years in tether | B |
| At six we waded in the sea | A |
| And caught our colds together | B |
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| At ten we practised playing at | C |
| A kind of heathen cricket | D |
| A croquet mallet was the bat | C |
| The Squire's old hat the wicket | D |
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| At twelve the cricket waxing slow | E |
| With home made bow and arrow | E |
| We took to shooting once I know | E |
| I all but hit a sparrow | E |
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| She took birds' nests from easy trees | F |
| I climbed the oaks and ashes | G |
| 'Twas deadly work for hands and knees | F |
| Deplorable for sashes | H |
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| At hide and seek one summer day | I |
| We played in merry laughter | B |
| 'Twas then she hid her heart away | I |
| I never found it after | B |
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| So time slipped by until my call | J |
| For out of the professions | K |
| I chose the Bar as best of all | J |
| And joined the Loamshire Sessions | K |
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| The reason for it was that there | L |
| Her father short and pursy | K |
| Doled out scant justice in the chair | L |
| And even scanter mercy | K |
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| As Holofernes lost his head | M |
| To Judith of Bethulia | J |
| So I fell victim but instead | M |
| Of Judith it was Julia | J |
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| My speech left juries in the dark | N |
| Of Julia I was thinking | O |
| And once I heard a coarse remark | N |
| About a fellow drinking | O |
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| I practised verse in leisure time | P |
| Both in and out of season | Q |
| It was indubitably rhyme | P |
| Occasionally reason | Q |
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| I lacked the cheek to tell my woes | K |
| Had not concealment fed on | R |
| My damask cheek but left my nose | K |
| With twice its share of red on | R |
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| Too horrible was this suspense | K |
| At last in desperation | Q |
| I went to Loamshire on pretence | K |
| Of death of a relation | Q |
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| The Squire was beaming Julia's gone | S |
| To London for a visit | D |
| But with a wedding coming on | R |
| That's not surprising is it | T |
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| Old friends like you will think no doubt | U |
| That she is young to marry | K |
| But ever since she first came out | U |
| She's been engaged to Harry | K |
James Williams
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