Peggy Band Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGFHDHD IJKJLDLD MNMNODOD PQPQRDSD| O it was a lorn and a dismal night | A |
| And the storm beat loud and high | B |
| Not a friendly light to guide me right | A |
| Was there shining in the sky | B |
| When a lonely hut my wanderings met | C |
| Lost in a foreign land | D |
| And I found the dearest friend as yet | C |
| In my lovely Peggy Band | D |
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| O father here's a soldier lad | E |
| And weary he seems to be | F |
| Then welcome in the old man said | G |
| And she gave her seat to me | F |
| The fire she trimmed and my clothes she dried | H |
| With her own sweet lily hand | D |
| And o'er the soldier's lot she sighed | H |
| While I blest my Peggy Band | D |
| - | |
| When I told the tale of my wandering years | I |
| And the nights unknown to sleep | J |
| She made excuse to hide her tears | K |
| And she stole away to weep | J |
| A pilgrim's blessing I seemed to share | L |
| As saints of the Holy Land | D |
| And I thought her a guardian angel there | L |
| Though he called her his Peggy Band | D |
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| The night it passed and the hour to part | M |
| With the morning winged away | N |
| And I felt an anguish at my heart | M |
| That vainly bid to stay | N |
| I thanked the old man for all he did | O |
| And I took his daughter's hand | D |
| But my heart was full and I could not bid | O |
| Farewell to my Peggy Band | D |
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| A blessing on that friendly cot | P |
| Where the soldier found repose | Q |
| And a blessing be her constant lot | P |
| Who soothed the stranger's woes | Q |
| I turned a last look at the door | R |
| As she held it in her hand | D |
| And my heart ached sore as I crossed the moor | S |
| For to leave my Peggy Band | D |
John Clare
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