A Wedding Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFAGAG HIHI CJCJ| Come up the broad river the Thames my Dane | A |
| My Dane with the beautiful eyes | B |
| Thousands and thousands await thee full fain | A |
| And talk of the wind and the skies | B |
| Fear not from folk and from country to part | C |
| O I swear it is wisely done | D |
| For I said I will bear me by thee sweetheart | C |
| As becometh my father's son | D |
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| Great London was shouting as I went down | E |
| She is worthy I said of this | F |
| What shall I give who have promised a crown | E |
| O first I will give her a kiss | F |
| So I kissed her and brought her my Dane my Dane | A |
| Through the waving wonderful crowd | G |
| Thousands and thousands they shouted amain | A |
| Like mighty thunders and loud | G |
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| And they said He is young the lad we love | H |
| The heir of the Isles is young | I |
| How we deem of his mother and one gone above | H |
| Can neither be said nor sung | I |
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| He brings us a pledge he will do his part | C |
| With the best of his race and name | J |
| And I will for I look to live sweetheart | C |
| As may suit with my mother's fame | J |
Jean Ingelow
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