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 bough | A |
May drop into a snare ' | B |
So sung we when a day of the past had passed | C |
away | D |
But not when Alf was near | E |
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Not Cilla not I nor Bessy need sigh | F |
That ever he came this way | D |
But a worthier far than Cilia and her | G |
Heath rued that evil day | D |
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That hour the dire ban of Rosa began | H |
When Alf glode over the hill | I |
And hailed us each with a blink did reach | J |
And make our heart strings thrill | I |
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At the brook we'd stoop'd and the water scoop'd | K |
Our clean green pails into | L |
When a coal black rook beclouded the brook | M |
And away o'er the hill top flew | L |
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We startled raised our heads and gazed | N |
And ere the bird had swept | O |
From sight heart light with his blink so bright | P |
The youth the waters leapt | O |
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I felt his spell and Bessy as well | Q |
As in her heart she knows | R |
But Rose did she look at her face in the brook | M |
Or why in the brook look's Rose | R |
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The fact was bared when the bird ensnared | S |
Was the village talk indeed | T |
But he the youth had the look of truth | U |
And who the heart can read | V |
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No Cilla no not even so | W |
Not Bessy more than Cill | Q |
Tho' she tost her head in pride and said | V |
What Rose remembers still | Q |
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'I think of the glance that made your hearts dance | X |
But ever I think also | W |
Of the grim black rook that darkened the brook | M |
And away o'er the hill did go ' | - |
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'Nay Bessy nay and forbear I pray | D |
By any cold remark | Y |
To deepen the shade that hangs o'er her head | V |
If Rosa's weird be dark | Y |
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' 'The wilyest bird on hedge ever heard' | V |
Ah well you know the rest | V |
The stranger youth had the look of truth | U |
And looks deceive the best | V |
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'If love mad driven poor Rose hath given | Z |
What to give is woe to her | G |
Another more wild had been beguiled | V |
By lures less dazzling far ' | - |
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At my sharp reply did a fierce red dye | F |
Bemantle Bessy's cheek | A2 |
While Rose turned as pale as the moon o'er the dale | Q |
But never a word did speak | A2 |
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With a downcast look her needles she took | M |
Till off our neighbour went | V |
When my hand she took and gave me a look | M |
Which worlds of meaning meant | V |
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Her tears out gushed in my arms she rushed | V |
And kissed her Cilla and said | V |
What never shall pass these lips till the grass | B2 |
Is green above my head | V |
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But oft since then and ever when | C2 |
I think of Rose and her ban | H |
Will the sad sad strain awake in my brain | D2 |
By which this ditty began | H |
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'Beware yon bird now in glee on the bough | A |
May drop into a snare ' | - |
Alas even so will the old thing go | W |
But when will the best beware | E2 |
Joseph Skipsey
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