A Pointer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE DGHGHDID GDCDDFDF H JKIKDDID H DHIHDHDH HJust listen to mi stooary lads | A |
It's one will mak yo grieve | B |
It's full ov sich strange incidents | C |
Yo hardly can believe | B |
That lass aw cooarted went one neet | D |
Aght walkin wi' a swell | E |
They ovvertuk me on mi way | F |
An this is what befell | E |
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They tuk me for a finger pooast | D |
Aw stood soa varry still | G |
An daan they set beside me | H |
Just at top o' Beacon Hill | G |
He sed shoo wor his deary | H |
Shoo sed he wor her pet | D |
'Twor an awkward sittiwation | I |
Which aw shall'nt sooin forget | D |
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Aw stood straight up at top o'th' hill | G |
They set daan at mi feet | D |
He hugged her up soa varry cloise | C |
Aw thowt ther lips must meet | D |
He sed he loved wi' all his heart | D |
Shoo fainted reight away | F |
Aw darsn't luk aw darsn't start | D |
But aw wished misen away | F |
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They tuk me for c | H |
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He bathed her temples from the brook | J |
He sed shoo wor his life | K |
It made me queer becoss aw'd sworn | I |
To mak that lass mi wife | K |
Shoo coom araand an ligg'd her heead | D |
Upon his heavin breast | D |
An then shoo skriked an off aw ran | I |
But aw cannot tell the rest | D |
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They tuk me for c | H |
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They wedded wor sooin after that | D |
Aw thowt mi heart wod braik | H |
It didn't soa aw'm livin on | I |
An freeatin for her sake | H |
But sweet revenge it coom at last | D |
For childer shoo had three | H |
An they're all marked wi' a finger pooast | D |
Whear it didn't owt to be | H |
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They tuk me for c | H |
John Hartley
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