Rona In The Moon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG AHA AIAI J JK LHMH NKNK ABAB| Rona Rona sister olden | A |
| Rona in the moon | B |
| You'll never break your prison golden | A |
| Never late or soon | B |
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| Rona for her crying daughter | C |
| At the dead of night | D |
| Took the gourd and went for water | C |
| Went without a light | D |
| - | |
| There she heard the owlets wrangle | E |
| With an angry hoot | F |
| Stick and stone and thorny tangle | E |
| Wounded Rona's foot | G |
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| 'Boil the moon ' she said in passion | A |
| 'Boil your lazy head | H |
| Hiding thus in idle fashion | A |
| In your starry bed ' | - |
| - | |
| Angry was the moon in heaven | A |
| Down to earth she came | I |
| 'Stay you ever unforgiven | A |
| For the word of shame | I |
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| Up you made the moon a byword | J |
| Up and dwell with me ' | - |
| Rona felt the drawing skyward | J |
| Seized a ngaio tree | K |
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| But from earth the ngaio parted | L |
| Like a bitten thread | H |
| Like a comet upward darted | M |
| Rona overhead | H |
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| In the moon is Rona sitting | N |
| Never to be free | K |
| With the gourd she held in flitting | N |
| And the ngaio tree | K |
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| You'll never break your prison golden | A |
| Never late or soon | B |
| Rona Rona sister olden | A |
| Rona in the moon | B |
Jessie Mackay
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