A True Tale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDCEC BBBBBFBF GHGHIBBB JKBLJBCB IMCMCNCN| Ther's a Squire lives at th' Hall 'at's lukt up to | A |
| As if he wor ommost a god | B |
| He's hansum he's rich an he's clivver | C |
| An fowk's praad if he gives 'em a nod | B |
| He keeps carriages horses an dogs | D |
| For spooartin or fancy or labor | C |
| He's a pew set apart in a church | E |
| An he's reckoned a varry gooid naybor | C |
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| Ther's a woman bedrabbled an weet | B |
| Crouched daan in a doorhoil to rest | B |
| Her een strangely breet her face like a sheet | B |
| An her long hair hings ovver her breast | B |
| Want's shrivell'd her body to nowt | B |
| An vice has set th' stamp on her face | F |
| An her heart's grown soa callous an hard | B |
| 'At it connot be touched wi' disgrace | F |
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| Ther's a child bundled up i' some rags | G |
| 'At's whinin its poor life away | H |
| Neglected an starvin on th' flags | G |
| On this wild cold an dree winter's day | H |
| An its father is dinin at th' Hall | I |
| An its mother is deein wi' th' cold | B |
| Withaat even a morsel o' breead | B |
| Yet its father is rollin i' gold | B |
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| Ther's a grey heeaded man an his wife | J |
| Who are bow'd daan wi' grief net wi' years | K |
| Ivver mournin a dowter they've lost | B |
| Ivver silently dryin ther tears | L |
| Shoo wor th' hooap an pride o' ther life | J |
| Till a Squire put strange thowts in her heead | B |
| Then shoo fled an they ne'er saw her mooar | C |
| Soa they mourn her as if shoo wor deead | B |
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| Ther's One up aboon sees it all | I |
| He values noa titles nor brass | M |
| He cares noa mooar for a rich Squire | C |
| Nor He does for a poor country lass | M |
| His messengers now hover near | C |
| Till that mother an child yield ther breath | N |
| An th' Squire has noa longer a fear | C |
| For his secret is lockt up in death | N |
John Hartley
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