Peggy's The Lady Of The Hall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEE CCCCFGFGHH CCCCCDCDEE| And will she leave the lowly clowns | A |
| For silk and satins gay | B |
| Her woollen aprons and drab gowns | A |
| For lady's cold array | B |
| And will she leave the wild hedge rose | C |
| The redbreast and the wren | D |
| And will she leave her Sunday beaus | C |
| And milk shed in the glen | D |
| And will she leave her kind friends all | E |
| To be the Lady of the Hall | E |
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| The cowslips bowed their golden drops | C |
| The white thorn white as sheets | C |
| The lamb agen the old ewe stops | C |
| The wren and robin tweets | C |
| And Peggy took her milk pails still | F |
| And sang her evening song | G |
| To milk her cows on Cowslip Hill | F |
| For half the summer long | G |
| But silk and satins rich and rare | H |
| Are doomed for Peggy still to wear | H |
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| But when the May had turned to haws | C |
| The hedge rose swelled to hips | C |
| Peggy was missed without a cause | C |
| And left us in eclipse | C |
| The shepherd in the hovel milks | C |
| Where builds the little wren | D |
| And Peggy's gone all clad in silks | C |
| Far from the happy glen | D |
| From dog rose woodbine clover all | E |
| To be the Lady of the Hall | E |
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