Lamentin' An Repentin'. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BCBC ADAD EFEF GEHE IGIG GJGJ KGKG LMNM GOGO EPEP PEPA APAP QPQP GPGP PGPG OPOP PAPA RSRG TGUG| Awst be better when spring comes aw think | A |
| But aw feel varry sickly an waik | A |
| Awve noa relish for mait nor for drink | A |
| An awm ommost too weary to laik | A |
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| What's to come on us all aw can't tell | B |
| For we havn't a shillin put by | C |
| Ther's nowt left to pop nor to sell | B |
| An aw cannot get trust if aw try | C |
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| My wife has to turn aght to wark | A |
| An th' little uns all do a share | D |
| An they're tewin throo dayleet to dark | A |
| To keep me sittin here i' mi chair | D |
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| It doesn't luk long sin that day | E |
| When Bessy wor stood bi mi side | F |
| An shoo promised to love an obey | E |
| An me to protect an provide | F |
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| Shoo wor th' bonniest lass i' all th' taan | G |
| An fowk sed as they saw us that day | E |
| When we coom aght o' th' church arm i' arm | H |
| Shoo wor throwin' hersen reight away | E |
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| But shoo smiled i' mi face as we went | I |
| An her arm clung moor tightly to mine | G |
| Aw feel happy shoo sed an content | I |
| To know at tha'rt mine an awm thine | G |
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| Aw wor praad ov her bonny breet een | G |
| Aw wor praad ov her little white hand | J |
| An aw thowt shoo wor fit for a queen | G |
| For ther wornt a grander ith' land | J |
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| We gat on varry weel for a bit | K |
| An aw stuck to mi wark like a man | G |
| An enjoying mi hooam thear awd sit | K |
| As a chap at works hard nobbut can | G |
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| We hadn't been wed quite a year | L |
| When they showed me a grand little lad | M |
| An th' old wimmen sed Sithee luk here | N |
| He's th' image exact ov his dad | M |
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| But mi mates nivver let me alooan | G |
| Till aw joined i' ther frolics and spree | O |
| An tho' Bessy went short or had nooan | G |
| Shoo wor kinder nor ivver to me | O |
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| Sometimes when shoo's ventur'd to say | E |
| Come hooam an stop in lad to neet | P |
| Awve felt shamed an awve hurried away | E |
| For her een have been glist'nin wi weet | P |
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| An awve sed to misen 'at awd mend | P |
| For it's wrang to be gooin on soa | E |
| But at neet back to th' aleus awd wend | P |
| Wi th' furst swillgut at ax'd me to goa | A |
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| Two childer wor added to th' stock | A |
| But aw drank an mi wark went to th' bad | P |
| An awve known em be rooarin for jock | A |
| Wol awve druffen what they should ha had | P |
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| Aw seldom went hooam but to sleep | Q |
| Tho Bessy ne'er offered to chide | P |
| But grief 'at is silent is deep | Q |
| An sorrow's net easy to hide | P |
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| If th' childer wod nobbut complain | G |
| Or Bessy get peevish an tart | P |
| Aw could put up wi th' anguish or pain | G |
| But ther kindness is braikin mi heart | P |
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| Little Emma poor child ov a neet | P |
| Does th' neighbours odd jobs nah and then | G |
| An shoo runs hersen off ov her feet | P |
| For a hawpny they think for hersen | G |
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| An shoo saved em until shoo gat three | O |
| But this mornin away shoo went aght | P |
| An spent em o' bacca for me | O |
| 'Coss shoo thowt aw luk'd looansum withaat | P |
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| It's a lesson awst nivver forget | P |
| An awve bid a gooid bye to strong drink | A |
| An theyst hev ther reward yo can bet | P |
| Awst be better when spring comes aw think | A |
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| An if spendin what's left o' mi life | R |
| For ther sakes can mak up for lost time | S |
| Ther shan't be a happier wife | R |
| Nor three better loved childer nor mine | G |
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| Aw can't help mi een runnin o'er | T |
| For mi heart does mi conduct condemn | G |
| But awl promise to do soa noa moor | U |
| If God spares me to Bessy and them | G |
John Hartley
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