Romance Of A Youngest Daughter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCB DEDFFE AGAHHG GIGGJK| Who will wed the Dowager s youngest daughter | A |
| The Captain filled with ale | B |
| He moored his expected boat to a stake in the water | A |
| And stumbled on sea legs into the Hall for mating | C |
| Only to be seduced by her lady in waiting | C |
| Round bosomed and not so pale | B |
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| Or the thrifty burgher in boots and fancy vest | D |
| With considered views of marriage | E |
| By the tidy scullery maid he was impressed | D |
| Who kept that house from depreciation and dirt | F |
| But wife does double duty and takes no hurt | F |
| So he rode her home in his carriage | E |
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| Never the spare young scholar antiquary | A |
| Who was their next resort | G |
| They let him wait in the crypt of the Old Library | A |
| And found him compromised with a Saxon book | H |
| Claiming his truelove Learning kept that nook | H |
| And promised sweet disport | G |
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| Desir e of a mother s christening never shall wed | G |
| Though fairest child of her womb | I |
| We will have revenge her injured Ladyship said | G |
| Henceforth the tightest nunnery be thy bed | G |
| By the topmost stair When the ill bred lovers come | J |
| We ll say She is not at home | K |
John Crowe Ransom
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