The Seaton Terrace Lass Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFE GEHE IJKJHEHE L MNO BEPE L QRSRQTQE L UVWXSTYE L ZA2B2A2C2EEE GEHE| A | |
| Who lilts away the summer day | B |
| Also the winter night | C |
| The merriest bird with rapture stirr'd | D |
| Could never yet surpass | E |
| The melody awaken'd by | F |
| The Seaton Terrace lass | E |
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| Chorus Her like is not in hall or cot | G |
| And you would vainly pass | E |
| From Tweed to Wear for one to peer | H |
| The Seaton Terrace lass | E |
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| She's graceful as a lily wand | I |
| Right modest too is she | J |
| And then ye'll search in vain the land | K |
| To find a busier bee | J |
| Like silver clear her iron gear | H |
| Like burnished gold the brass | E |
| For tidiness there's none to peer | H |
| The Seaton Terrace lass | E |
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| Chorus Her like is not etc | L |
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| More restless than a clucking hen | M |
| About her Minnie stirs | N |
| 'Go jewel knit your fancy net | O |
| And I will scour the floors ' | - |
| 'Enjoy the day a down the way | B |
| Where greenest grows the grass | E |
| No help I need ' replies with speed | P |
| The Seaton Terrace lass | E |
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| Chorus Her like is not etc | L |
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| She'll knit or sew she'll bake or brew | Q |
| She'll wash the clothes so clean | R |
| The very daisy pales beside | S |
| Her linen on the green | R |
| Then what she'll do with ease she'll do | Q |
| And still her manner has | T |
| A charm would gar a stoic woo | Q |
| The Seaton Terrace lass | E |
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| Chorus Her like is not etc | L |
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| Discomfort flies her dark brown eyes | U |
| And when the men folk come | V |
| All black and weary from the pit | W |
| They find a welcome home | X |
| Her brothers tease her and a pride | S |
| The father feeleth as | T |
| Again he meets again he greets | Y |
| The Seaton Terrace lass | E |
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| Chorus Her like is not etc | L |
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| When day is past and night at last | Z |
| Begins to cloud the dell | A2 |
| She'll take her skiel and out she'll steal | B2 |
| And meet me at the well | A2 |
| Then oh how fleet the moments sweet | C2 |
| Yet fleeter shall they pass | E |
| That night the Bebside laddie weds | E |
| The Seaton Terrace lass | E |
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| Chorus Her like is not in hall or cot | G |
| And vainly would you pass | E |
| From Tweed to Wear for one to peer | H |
| The Seaton Terrace lass | E |
Joseph Skipsey
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