Song Of Margaret Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDADC EFEFGHGH IJIJKEKE LMLMKAKC| Ay I saw her we have met | A |
| Married eyes how sweet they be | B |
| Are you happier Margaret | C |
| Than you might have been with me | B |
| Silence make no more ado | D |
| Did she think I should forget | A |
| Matters nothing though I knew | D |
| Margaret Margaret | C |
| - | |
| Once those eyes full sweet full shy | E |
| Told a certain thing to mine | F |
| What they told me I put by | E |
| O so careless of the sign | F |
| Such an easy thing to take | G |
| And I did not want it then | H |
| Fool I wish my heart would break | G |
| Scorn is hard on hearts of men | H |
| - | |
| Scorn of self is bitter work | I |
| Each of us has felt it now | J |
| Bluest skies she counted mirk | I |
| Self betrayed of eyes and brow | J |
| As for me I went my way | K |
| And a better man drew nigh | E |
| Fain to earn with long essay | K |
| What the winner's hand threw by | E |
| - | |
| Matters not in deserts old | L |
| What was born and waxed and yearned | M |
| Year to year its meaning told | L |
| I am come its deeps are learned | M |
| Come but there is naught to say | K |
| Married eyes with mine have met | A |
| Silence O I had my day | K |
| Margaret Margaret | C |
Jean Ingelow
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