Jockey And Jenny Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCCC ADADAAACC ACACAAACC CECEAAACC ACACAAAF FCFCCCCCC| Will Jockey come to day mither | A |
| Will Jockey come to day | B |
| He's taen sic likings to my brither | A |
| He's sure to come the day | B |
| Haud yer tongue lass mind your rockie | C |
| But th'other day ye wore a pockie | C |
| What can ye mean to think o' Jockey | C |
| Ye've bin content the season long | C |
| Ye'd best keep to your harmless song | C |
| - | |
| Ye'll soon see falling tears mither | A |
| If love's a sin in youth | D |
| He leuks to me and talks wi' brither | A |
| But I know the secret truth | D |
| He's courted me the year mither | A |
| Judge not the matter queer mither | A |
| Ye're a' the while as dear mither | A |
| As ye've been the Summer long | C |
| I cannot sing my song | C |
| - | |
| I'll hear nae farder preaching mither | A |
| I'se bin a child ower lang | C |
| He led me frae the teaching mither | A |
| Ann wherefore did he wrang | C |
| I ken he often tauks wi' brither | A |
| I neither look at ane or 'tither | A |
| You ken as well as I mither | A |
| There's nae love in my song | C |
| Though I've sang the Summer long | C |
| - | |
| Nae dinna be sae saucy lassie | C |
| I may be kenned ye ill | E |
| If love has taen the hold lassie | C |
| There's nae cure i' the pill | E |
| Nae I dinna want a pill mither | A |
| He leuks at me and tauks to ither | A |
| And twice we've bin at kirk thegither | A |
| I'm 's well now as a' Summer long | C |
| But somehew cauna sing a song | C |
| - | |
| He comes and talks to brither mither | A |
| But leuks his thoughts at me | C |
| He always says gude neet to brither | A |
| And looks gude neet to me | C |
| Lassie ye seldom vexed yer mither | A |
| Ye're ower too fair a flower to wither | A |
| So be ye are to come thegither | A |
| I'll be nae damp to yer new claes | F |
| Cheer up and sing o'er 'Loggan braes ' | - |
| - | |
| Jockey comes o' Sabbath days | F |
| His face is not a face o'er brassy | C |
| Her mither sits to praise the claes | F |
| Holds him her box to win the lassie | C |
| He taks a pinch and greets wi' granny | C |
| And helps his chair up nearer Jenny | C |
| And vows he loves her muir than any | C |
| She thinks her mither seldom wrong | C |
| And Loggan braes is her daily song | C |
John Clare
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