Poor Rose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FDGD HIJI KLML NOPO QRMR STUV WQVQ XWM DYVY VVUV ZGV FA2QA2 MVMV VVB2V C2HD2H A WE2

'BEWARE yon bird now in glee on the boughA
May drop into a snare 'B
So sung we when a day of the past had passedC
awayD
But not when Alf was nearE
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Not Cilla not I nor Bessy need sighF
That ever he came this wayD
But a worthier far than Cilia and herG
Heath rued that evil dayD
-
That hour the dire ban of Rosa beganH
When Alf glode over the hillI
And hailed us each with a blink did reachJ
And make our heart strings thrillI
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At the brook we'd stoop'd and the water scoop'dK
Our clean green pails intoL
When a coal black rook beclouded the brookM
And away o'er the hill top flewL
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We startled raised our heads and gazedN
And ere the bird had sweptO
From sight heart light with his blink so brightP
The youth the waters leaptO
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I felt his spell and Bessy as wellQ
As in her heart she knowsR
But Rose did she look at her face in the brookM
Or why in the brook look's RoseR
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The fact was bared when the bird ensnaredS
Was the village talk indeedT
But he the youth had the look of truthU
And who the heart can readV
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No Cilla no not even soW
Not Bessy more than CillQ
Tho' she tost her head in pride and saidV
What Rose remembers stillQ
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'I think of the glance that made your hearts danceX
But ever I think alsoW
Of the grim black rook that darkened the brookM
And away o'er the hill did go '-
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'Nay Bessy nay and forbear I prayD
By any cold remarkY
To deepen the shade that hangs o'er her headV
If Rosa's weird be darkY
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' 'The wilyest bird on hedge ever heard'V
Ah well you know the restV
The stranger youth had the look of truthU
And looks deceive the bestV
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'If love mad driven poor Rose hath givenZ
What to give is woe to herG
Another more wild had been beguiledV
By lures less dazzling far '-
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At my sharp reply did a fierce red dyeF
Bemantle Bessy's cheekA2
While Rose turned as pale as the moon o'er the daleQ
But never a word did speakA2
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With a downcast look her needles she tookM
Till off our neighbour wentV
When my hand she took and gave me a lookM
Which worlds of meaning meantV
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Her tears out gushed in my arms she rushedV
And kissed her Cilla and saidV
What never shall pass these lips till the grassB2
Is green above my headV
-
But oft since then and ever whenC2
I think of Rose and her banH
Will the sad sad strain awake in my brainD2
By which this ditty beganH
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'Beware yon bird now in glee on the boughA
May drop into a snare '-
Alas even so will the old thing goW
But when will the best bewareE2

Joseph Skipsey



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