Dolly Dare Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DCEC FCGC HCIC JCKC LCMC NCOC PCOC QCRC JCSC TCU VBAC| AT 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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