Mary's Bonnet. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHGHIGJG JJKJGCKA GLKLMGMG BMNMGMGM| Have yo seen awr Mary's bonnet | A |
| It's a stunner noa mistak | B |
| Ther's a bunch o' rooasies on it | C |
| An a feather daan her back | B |
| Yollo ribbons an fine laces | D |
| An a cock a doodle doo | E |
| An raand her bonny face is | F |
| A string o' pooasies blue | E |
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| When shoo went to church last Sundy | G |
| Th' parson could'nt find his text | H |
| An fat old Mistress Grundy | G |
| Sed A'a Mary pray what next | H |
| Th' lads wink'd at one another | I |
| Th' lasses snikered i' ther glee | G |
| An th' whooal o'th' congregation | J |
| Had her bonnet i' ther ee | G |
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| Sooin th' singers started singin | J |
| But they braik daan one bi one | J |
| For th' hymn wor on The flowers | K |
| Of fifty summers gone | J |
| But when they saw awr Mary | G |
| They made a mullock on it | C |
| For they thowt 'at all them flaars | K |
| Had been put on Mary's bonnet | A |
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| Then th' parson sed mooast kindly | G |
| Ther wor noa offence intended | L |
| But flaar shows wor aght o' place | K |
| I'th' church whear saints attended | L |
| An if his errin sister wished | M |
| To find her way to glory | G |
| Shoo should'nt carry on her heead | M |
| A whooal consarvatory | G |
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| Nah Mary is'nt short o' pluck | B |
| Shoo jumpt up in a minnit | M |
| Shoo lukt as if shoo'd swollo th' church | N |
| An ivverybody in it | M |
| Parson shoo sed yor heead is bare | G |
| Nowt in it an nowt on it | M |
| Suppooas yo put some flaars thear | G |
| Like theas 'at's in my bonnet | M |
John Hartley
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