The Gipsy's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDBD EFFFGBGB HIHIFBFB FJFJKFKF BLBLMNON PBPBQFQF DBDBRFRF FSTSUBUB VWVWXKXK JFJFIBIB| The gipsy's life is a merry life | A |
| And ranting boys we be | B |
| We pay to none or rent or tax | C |
| And live untith'd and free | B |
| None care for us for none care we | B |
| And where we list we roam | D |
| And merry boys we gipsies be | B |
| Though the wild woods are our home | D |
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| And come what will brings no dismay | E |
| Our minds are ne'er perplext | F |
| For if to day is a swaly day | F |
| We meet with luck the next | F |
| And thus we sing and kiss our mates | G |
| While our chorus still shall be | B |
| Bad luck to tyrant magistrates | G |
| And the gipsies' camp still free | B |
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| To mend old pans and bottom chairs | H |
| Around the towns we tramp | I |
| Then a day or two our purse repairs | H |
| And plenty fills our camp | I |
| And our song we sing and our fiddles sound | F |
| Their catgut harmony | B |
| While echo fills the woods around | F |
| With gipsy liberty | B |
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| The green grass is our softest bed | F |
| The sun our clock we call | J |
| The nightly sky hangs over head | F |
| Our curtains house and all | J |
| Tho' houseless while the wild winds blow | K |
| Our joys are uncontroll'd | F |
| We barefoot dance through Winter's snow | K |
| When others die with cold | F |
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| Our maidens they are fond and free | B |
| And lasting are their charms | L |
| Brown as the berry on the tree | B |
| No sun their beauty harms | L |
| Their beauties are no garden blooms | M |
| That fade before they flower | N |
| Unshelter'd where the tempest comes | O |
| They smile in sun and shower | N |
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| And they are wild as the woodland hare | P |
| That feeds on the evening lea | B |
| And what care we for ladies fair | P |
| Since ours are fond and free | B |
| False hearts hide in a lily skin | Q |
| But ours are coarse and fond | F |
| No parson's fetters link us in | Q |
| Our love's a stronger bond | F |
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| Tho' wild woods are our house and home | D |
| 'T is a home of liberty | B |
| Free as the Summer clouds we roam | D |
| And merry boys we be | B |
| We dance and sing the year along | R |
| And loud our fiddles play | F |
| And no day goes without its song | R |
| While every month is May | F |
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| The hare that haunts the fallow ground | F |
| And round the common feeds | S |
| The fox that tracks the woodland bounds | T |
| And in the thicket breeds | S |
| These are the neighbours where we dwell | U |
| And all the guests we see | B |
| That share and love the quiet well | U |
| Of gipsy liberty | B |
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| The elements are grown our friends | V |
| And leave our huts alone | W |
| The thunder bolt that shakes and rends | V |
| The cotter's house of stone | W |
| Flies harmless by the blanket roof | X |
| Where the winds may burst and blow | K |
| For our camps tho' thin are tempest proof | X |
| We reck not rain and snow | K |
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| May the lot we've met our lives befall | J |
| And nothing worse attend | F |
| So here's success to gipsies all | J |
| And every gipsy's friend | F |
| And while the ass that bears our camp | I |
| Can find a common free | B |
| Around old England's heaths we'll tramp | I |
| In gipsy liberty | B |
John Clare
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