Dawlish Fair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDD FDFD GHGH GIGJ| Over the hill and over the dale | A |
| And over the bourn to Dawlish | B |
| Where gingerbread wives have a scanty sale | A |
| And gingerbread nuts are smallish | B |
| C | |
| Rantipole Betty she ran down a hill | D |
| And kicked up her petticoats fairly | E |
| Says I I'll be Jack if you will be Gill | D |
| So she sat on the grass debonairly | D |
| - | |
| Here's somebody coming here's somebody coming | F |
| Says I 'tis the wind at a parley | D |
| So without any fuss any hawing and humming | F |
| She lay on the grass debonairly | D |
| - | |
| Here's somebody here and here's somebody there | G |
| Says I hold your tongue you young Gipsey | H |
| So she held her tongue and lay plump and fair | G |
| And dead as a Venus tipsy | H |
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| O who wouldn't hie to Dawlish fair | G |
| O who wouldn't stop in a Meadow | I |
| O who would not rumple the daisies there | G |
| And make the wild fern for a bed do | J |
John Keats
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