The Posy-gift. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEFGH A IIII AIJI A KFKF LC C K IEKE MEME E ININ IOI K GIPI QRQR K ISIS TUT K VQVQ KQM Q QWX KKEK Q WOKO CCYC E QQQQ QCQC Q ZEZE QOQO Q YEQE WEA2E K EEUE B2TC2T K EEEE XKXK K KTKT EOOEO K KD2OD2 KEE2 K ETKT F2EG2 E EOEO RCRC E KCK EEEEI | A |
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YOU quite mistake the sprite you chase | B |
I'm of the under not the upper | C |
Order of the fairy race | B |
And cannot go with you to supper | C |
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'You silly elf Titania's self | D |
Will' Tut be there My mirth she | E |
quenches | F |
And her stiff airs kick me down stairs | G |
To my dear kitchen cats and wenches | H |
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II | A |
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HE giggled at the thought and had | I |
He been a dog his tail he'd wriggled | I |
He was at heart so very glad | I |
At what the little giggler giggled | I |
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'You giggled Why Your thought I'd buy | A |
The price ' O'er such we've never higgled | I |
'Tis but to task yourself to ask | J |
At what the little giggler giggled | I |
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III | A |
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ANOTHER stave I'll never rave | K |
Against the rich folk and their riches | F |
The men you knave are good and brave | K |
The women are the sweetest witches | F |
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'What's up now ' Pooh what's that to you | L |
One cannot have a little lunar | C |
Fit but some one cries out 'Mum ' | - |
And puts the pipe out of the crooner | C |
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IV | K |
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HA ha last night I served you right | I |
The kick I gave but I was sorry | E |
I gave it you but come and view | K |
What will allay your wrath and worry | E |
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'That posy gay Well I dare say | M |
Who gave it you A lady ' Truly | E |
'What lady pray ' That I will say | M |
When you have learned your manners duly | E |
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V | E |
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THESE jewels left her very hand | I |
Were pull'd within her very bowers | N |
Smell senseless villain smell them and | I |
Say didst thou ever smell such flowers | N |
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'Such flowers ' the fellow seized his hat | I |
'Such flowers ' he answer'd in derision | O |
'Well I've heard questions strange but that | I |
I'd better run for a physician ' | - |
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VI | K |
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COME pretty flowers and drink my tears | G |
'Tis well my better reason chided | I |
Or I had box'd the rascal's ears | P |
That so the little dears derided | I |
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My ruth not ire the wretch demands | Q |
The magic every cup adorning | R |
How could he feel saw he the hands | Q |
That placed them into mine this morning | R |
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VII | K |
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WHAT fancies throng into the mind | I |
When one upon this posy gazeth | S |
The more I look the more I find | I |
Some semblance that one's ken amazeth | S |
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'What semblance man to what to whom ' | - |
Go lack a brain and sweep the stable | T |
A wooden head must not presume | U |
To chatter at the Muse's Table | T |
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VIII | K |
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ONE fancy kicks another's heel | V |
But let us seize one while it trembles | Q |
In act to fly and make't reveal | V |
Wherein each bloom her charms resembles | Q |
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These violets blue not filled with dew | K |
But with my tears are not these weepers | Q |
'What would you say her eyes are grey | M |
And never flash'd two merrier peepers ' | - |
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IX | Q |
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ONCE more sweet Muse a fancy choose | Q |
Seize by the heels that winged fellow | W |
And he'll declare how this her hair | X |
'Her hair is brown that broom is yellow ' | - |
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Then that one try I know he'll cry | K |
This bean bloom's like her lips 'Sweet | K |
booby | E |
That runner's quite a scarlet bright | K |
Thy lady's lips are very ruby ' | - |
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X | Q |
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GO Musie go you like I know | W |
To throw a glamour o'er my vision | O |
And I but want the truth to chant | K |
And Truth shall do it with precision | O |
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He'll not aver this rose bloom's her | C |
This lily bell he knows not whether | C |
But he will tell she's lily bell | Y |
And red red rose bloom both together | C |
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XI | E |
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THESE flowers that so reflect the grace | Q |
Of one who is the Queen of Graces | Q |
I'll pop into my richest vase | Q |
Where I may watch their pretty faces | Q |
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And should a fly approach their lips | Q |
Then Mercy shield the little sinner | C |
For if I catch him on the hips | Q |
He'll never need another dinner | C |
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XII | Q |
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ALL things of beauty seek to draw | Z |
Unto themselves like things of beauty | E |
In homage to an inner law | Z |
And which to own's their bounden duty | E |
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So deems my nose this beauteous nose | Q |
That out of love not adulation | O |
So oft before this wall flower bows | Q |
Or homage yields to this carnation | O |
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XIII | Q |
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COME let me smell thee lily bell | Y |
Another smell my silver lily | E |
And thou sweet rose come to my nose | Q |
Ah whence those feelings soft and silly | E |
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She smell's you so the lady No | W |
I know she did her charming nosy | E |
Drew nectar up from every cup | A2 |
Before she handed me the posy | E |
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XIV | K |
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THESE lovely blooms their rich perfumes | E |
And many colours rich and glorious | E |
My soul illume o'er care and gloom | U |
To move a king a king victorious | E |
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To me things seem as in a stream | B2 |
Or on the person of my idol | T |
To wear a sheen before unseen | C2 |
E'en by the gifted bard of Rydal | T |
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XV | K |
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BLIND as the wretch who mock'd my flowers | E |
Or rather mock'd their well won praises | E |
And swore what came from Eden bowers | E |
Were only buttercups and daisies | E |
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As blind was I till till A hare | X |
The thought is off nor can I win it | K |
Back to well to I declare | X |
This song must end with nothing in it | K |
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XVI | K |
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O DEAR dear dear what shall I do | K |
My only thoughts are off that clearly | T |
Might have express'd the praises due | K |
To one I prize and prize so dearly | T |
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The wine has vanished and the lees | E |
To serve up these would leave one | O |
undone | O |
Not of the flock of chick a dees | E |
That chirrup to the folk of London | O |
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XVII | K |
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'HA ha at last you're fetter'd fast | K |
Was ever such a daft gigantic | D2 |
Zany known on earth or one | O |
So much the sport of passions frantic | D2 |
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You kicked me off with scorn and scoff | K |
Then quite ignored the Muse romantic's | E |
Aid Dame's brow to crown and now | E2 |
You pay the piper for your antics ' | - |
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XVIII | K |
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'WITH Common Sense one might dispense | E |
But from the Muse's Table surely | T |
To drive away the merry fay | K |
The Muse herself is madness purely | T |
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Then when we dine and drink our wine | F2 |
To have served up Truth's pungent salad's | E |
Enough to make one's nerves to shake | G2 |
Whenever we'd meet our Bag of Ballads ' | - |
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XIX | E |
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'TIS quite a treat as singer knows | E |
To have to own one's fairly beaten | O |
And council's held among the crows | E |
To learn how soon one may be eaten | O |
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The sparrow hawks are on the wing | R |
The magpies too in chorus chatter | C |
And owlets lend their aid to ring | R |
The death bell of But that's no matter | C |
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XX | E |
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MY Song must end and now I'll send | K |
It to the critics with this letter | C |
'Sir praise this song and I'm your friend | K |
Or if you'd rather you had better ' | - |
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One to my lady fair also | E |
I'll write and from the subject borrow | E |
Such fire that I'll receive I know | E |
Another posy gift to morrow | E |
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Joseph Skipsey
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