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Thistle And Nettle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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'Twos on a night with sleet and snow	A
From out the north a tempest blew	B
When Thistle gathered nerve to go	A
The little Nettle's self to woo	B
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Within her father's cottage soon	C
He found the ever dreaded maid	D
She then was knitting to a tune	C
The wind upon the window played	D
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His errand known she with a frown	E
Up from the oaken table sprung	F
Down took the broom and swept the room	G
While like a bell her clapper rung	F
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'Have I not seen enough to be	H
Convinced for ever soon or late	I
The maid shall rue the moment she	H
Attendeth to a wooer's prate	I
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'How long ago since Phemie Hay	J
To Harry at the Mill fell wrong	K
How long since Hall a prank did play	J
On silly Nelly Brown how long	K
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'How ago long ago since Adam Smith	L
Wooed Annie on the Moor and left	I
The lassie with a stain yea with	M
A heart of every hope bereft	I
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'But what need instance cases lo	A
Have I not heard thee chaunt the lay	J
'The fraud of men was ever so	A
Since summer first was leafy ' eh	N
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'When men are to be trusted then	O
But never may that time befall	P
Of five times five and twenty men	O
There's barely five are men at all	P
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'Before the timid maid they'll fall	P
And smile and weep and sigh and sue	B
Till once they get her in their thrall	P
And then she's doomed her lot to rue	B
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'For her a subtle snare they weave	Q
And when the bonny bird is caught	I
Then then they giggle in their sleeve	Q
Then laugh to scorn the ill they've wrought	I
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'As other weary winds they woo	B
The bloom its treasures to unfold	I
Extract its wealth their way pursue	B
And leave her pining on the wold	I
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'When poppies fell like lilies smell	R
When cherries grow on brambles when	O
When grapes adorn the common thorn	S
Then women may have faith in men	O
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'Then may we hear what they may swear	T
Till then sir know I'm on my guard	I
And he the loon that brings me down	E
He he'll be pardoned on my word '	-
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Thus for an hour her tongue was heard	I
By this her words grown faint and few	B
She raised the broom at every word	I
And thumped the floor to prove it true	B
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In ardent words the youth replied	I
'Dread hollow hearted guile thou must	I
But deem not all of honour void	I
Nor punish all with thy mistrust	I
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'A few not all the lash have earn'd	I
Let but that few the lash assail	U
The world were topsy turvy turned	I
Did not some sense of right prevail	U
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'Destroy the weed but spare the flower	V
Consume the chaff but keep the grain	W
Nor harry one who'd die before	X
He'd give thy little finger pain '	-
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On hearing this she sat her down	E
Took up her needlework again	O
And tho' she strove to wear a frown	E
Made answer in a milder strain	W
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'Forego thy quest Deceitful words	Y
May yet as they have been may be	H
A fatal lure to lighter birds	Y
They'll never prove the like to me	H
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'Still by my chastity I vow	Z
As I have kept the cheat at bay	J
So should I keep my senses so	A
I'll keep him till my dying day	J
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'The best that man can do or say	J
The love of gold or rubies rare	T
Not all that wealth can furnish may	J
Once lure to leave me in a snare	T
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'So end thy quest ' He only prest	I
His ardent suit the more while she	H
At every word he uttered garr'd	I
Her fleeing needles faster flee	H
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'My quest by honour's justified	I
I long have eyed and found thee still	A2
The maid I'd like to be my bride	I
Would I could say the maid that will	A2
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'Hadst thou but been a daffodil	A2
That with the breezes sport and play	J
For all thy suitor valued still	A2
Thou so hadst danced thy life away	J
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'But thou so fair art chaste ' Thus he	H
Unto her answer answers e'er	V
And that too in a way that she	H
Must will or nill his answer hear	B2
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And then a chair he'd taken his chair	T
Unto her side he nearer drew	B
Recurred to memories sweet and rare	T
And in a softer key did woo	B
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'Must all the passion which I've sought	I
So long to hide be paid with scorn	S
A heart with pure affection fraught	I
Be doomed a hopeless love to mourn	S
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'And must thou still its homage spurn	C2
And must thou still my suit reject	I
And be to me this cruel thorn	S
Reflect upon the past reflect	I
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'A time there was and time shall pass	D2
To me ere that forgotten be	H
When side by side from tide to tide	I
We played and sported on the lea	H
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'Ay then have I not chased the bee	H
From bloom to bloom oft chased and	I
caught	I
And having drawn its sting in glee	H
To thee the little body brought	I
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'Then when a bloom of rarer dyes	E2
Into my busy fingers fell	R
To whom was reached the lucky prize	E2
Can not thy recollection tell	R
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'As oft away as summer went	I
Who pulled with thee the haw bright	I
brown	E
Brown as thy own bright eyes and bent	I
For thee the richest branches down	E
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'With blooms I've graced thy yellow hair	T
With berries filled thy lap thy hand	I
That hand as alabaster fair	T
Had every gift at my command	I
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'Nay tho' to others dour yet meek	F2
I ever was to thee and kind	I
And when we played at hide and seek	F2
I hid where thou would'st seek to find	I
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'Upon the play ground still unmatched	I
Was I unless my loved one played	I
And then it seem'd to those who watched	I
My failures were on purpose made	I
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'As sure as e'er a race began	G2
The palm was mine unless she joined	I
And then I always was out ran	G2
For still with her I lagged behind	I
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'The ball I drove to others mocked	I
Their efforts to arrest its flight	I
But when my ball to her was knocked	I
It would upon her lap alight	I
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'None up and down so well I bobbed	I
To skip the rope with me would try	H2
Did she attempt my skill was robbed	I
Another skipped her out not I	H2
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'At play thus wasn't but childhood past	I
And e'er the lasses reach their teens	I2
Atween them and the lads a vast	I
Mysterious distance intervenes	I2
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'They seldom on the green appear	J2
In careless sport and play and if	K2
They join the throng erect they wear	T
Their head and still their air is stiff	K2
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'They ail they know not what And such	L2
The change that on my lassie fell	R
Then would she shrink my hand to touch	L2
And I half feared her touch as well	R
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'Had I changed too This I can tell	R
That touch o'er me a spell would cast	I
And did I pass her in the dell	R
With slow and snail like pace I pass'd	I
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'Her voice had lost its former ring	M2
Yet in that voice such power was flung	F
I better liked to hear her sing	M2
Than when of old to me she sung	F
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'Her touch her tone would make or mar	N2
My bliss and tho' with all my skill	A2
I strove to please and please but her	V
I in her presence blundered still	A2
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'When by the hearth she sewing sat	I
Did I to thread her needle try	H2
Still still my heart played pit a pat	I
And still I miss'd the needle's eye	H2
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'As with the needle threading so	A
We with the skein a winding fared	I
And Auntie's dreaded tongue would go	A
Before the dancing end appeared	I
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''What ails the lass ' she often said	I
'She's sound asleep ' once said and flew	B
And snatched and snapt the tangled thread	I
While I I know not how withdrew	B
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'Away too fled those hours Alack	A
They came and went like visions rare	T
To mock the heart delude and wrack	A
And leave the gazer in despair	T
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'Ah less tho' sun illumed less fair	T
The blobs that dance adown the burn	C2
And let them burst they'll re appear	J2
Ere those delightsome hours return	C2
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'Yet they may live in thought and could	I
They live in Nettle's thought again	O
Would she not change her bearing would	I
Would she not change this bitter strain	W
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'Would she her lover still disdain	W
Would she continue thus to gall	P
And put him to this cruel pain	W