Dolly Dare Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DCEC FCGC HCIC JCKC LCMC NCOC PCOC QCRC JCSC TCU VBACAT Backworth sung till echo rung | A |
A bard whose feelings were | B |
In what to young and old he sung | A |
Of little Dolly Dare | C |
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'Tho' Lizzy's sweet and Polly's neat | D |
And Fanny she is fair | C |
There's truly none was never one | E |
So blithe as Dolly Dare | C |
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In doors and out she stirs about | F |
As if she felt aware | C |
By labour glows more red the rose | G |
That dowereth Dolly Dare | C |
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A duty here with forehead clear | H |
With grace a duty there | C |
She'll do and do what very few | I |
Can do will Dolly Dare | C |
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She knitting will a ditty trill | J |
And to an olden air | C |
The needles bright dance left and right | K |
Of sweet tongued Dolly Dare | C |
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Beneath her touch its power is such | L |
As bright as palace rare | C |
The cottage seems and in it gleams | M |
A Queen in Dolly Dare | C |
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The pots and mugs and pans and jugs | N |
Into their places fare | C |
And clearer glow and dearer grow | O |
When touched by Dolly Dare | C |
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The bread she bakes the beds she makes | P |
And up and down the stair | C |
On tripping toe will dancing go | O |
The tidy Dolly Dare | C |
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To words of mirth she scours the hearth | Q |
While in his easy chair | C |
Old Robin lies and smoking eyes | R |
With pride his Dolly Dare | C |
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Her pail to fill she'll to the rill | J |
Or to the well and there | C |
Doth clearly see Truth's self for she | S |
Therein sees Dolly Dare | C |
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Tis thus away she'll while the day | T |
And then to me repair | C |
When envy smit the moments flit | U |
O'er me and Dolly Dare ' | - |
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The bard his song so sung and long | V |
Tho' plain his verses were | B |
Wagged every tongue with what he sung | A |
Of little Dolly Dare | C |
Joseph Skipsey
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