Poet John Clare

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My Bonny Alice And Her Pitcher Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDFGH IBIBJDJDGH IKIKLHLHGG IMIMNCNCHG

There's a bonny place in ScotlandA
Where a little spring is foundB
There Nature shows her honest faceC
The whole year roundB
Where the whitethorn branches full of mayD
Hung near the fountain's rimE
Where comes sweet Alice every dayD
And dips her pitcher inF
A gallon pitcher without earG
She fills it with the water clearH
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My bonny Alice she is fairI
There's no such other to be foundB
Her rosy cheek and dark brown hairI
The fairest maid on Scotland's groundB
And there the heather's pinhead flowersJ
All blossom over bank and braeD
While Alice passes by the bowersJ
To fill her pitcher every dayD
The pitcher brown without an earG
She dips into the fountain clearH
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O Alice bonny sweet and fairI
With roses on her cheeksK
The little birds come drinking thereI
The throstle almost speaksK
He dips his wings and wimples makesL
Upon the fountain clearH
Then vanishes among the brakesL
For ever singing nearH
While Alice listening stands to hearG
And dips her pitcher without earG
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O Alice bonny Alice fairI
Thy pleasant face I loveM
Thy red rose cheek thy dark brown hairI
Thy soft eyes like a doveM
I see thee by the fountain standN
With the sweet smiling faceC
There's not a maid in all the landN
With such bewitching graceC
As Alice who is drawing nearH
To dip the pitcher without earG

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