Roll On Time, Roll On Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCD E FGFH IJIJ JKLM NHOH LPQR| Air Roll on Silver Moon | A |
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| Roll on time roll on as it always has done | B |
| Since the time this world first begun | B |
| It can never change my love that I gave a dear man | C |
| Faithful friend I gave my heart and hand | D |
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| CHORUS | E |
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| Roll on time roll on it can never turn back | F |
| To the time of my maiden days | G |
| To the time of my youth it can never turn back | F |
| When I wandered with my love bright and gay | H |
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| I was happy then as a girl could ever be | I |
| And live on this earth here below | J |
| I was happy as a lark and as busy as a bee | I |
| For in fashion or in style I did not go | J |
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| My parents were poor and they could not dress me so | J |
| For they had not got the money to spare | K |
| And it may be better so for I do not think fine clothes | L |
| Make a person any better than they are | M |
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| Some people are getting so they think a poor girl | N |
| Though she be bright and intelligent and gay | H |
| She must have nice clothes or she is nothing in this world | O |
| If she is not dressed in style every day | H |
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| Remember never to judge people by their clothes | L |
| For our brave noble Washington said | P |
| Honorable are rags if a true heart they enclose | Q |
| And I found it was the truth when I married | R |
Julia Ann Moore
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