Adventurers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDFGFHIJIAKLKL MNBNIOPOIIIIQRSRTFTF NKNKBFBFMKMKFFFFFFFF IFIF| This morning I got up before the sun | A |
| Had seized the hill | B |
| And scrambled heart hot noisy past each one | A |
| In sleep laid still | B |
| There they lay helpless under the gold stars | C |
| Good folk and kind | D |
| By sleep the robber spoiled of heavenly wares | E |
| Made deaf and blind | D |
| The leaves cracked the grass rustled as I passed | F |
| I might have been | G |
| Myself the thief Each minute seemed the last | F |
| Of freedom's teen | H |
| But lonely down the hill in Levite's guise | I |
| Or priest's I ran | J |
| I had not proved myself true loverwise | I |
| Samaritan | A |
| The wind went by me pulling at my hair | K |
| I left the track | L |
| My last night's purpose terrible and fair | K |
| Came sweeping back | L |
| Among the bracken under a white tree | M |
| I sat me down | N |
| And slipped my shoulders very stealthily | B |
| From out my gown | N |
| One minute I lay naked on the grass | I |
| Then sat upright | O |
| The hot wind had its will with me and kissed | P |
| My bosom white | O |
| The stars gleamed in the grey before the rose | I |
| Were they not eyes | I |
| That peered and leered and seemed about to close | I |
| In shocked surprise | I |
| With the whole sky at gaze there had I lain | Q |
| Had dared thus much | R |
| I ran on frightened down the hill again | S |
| With gown to clutch | R |
| Down by the creek the blackberries grew thick | T |
| And as I passed | F |
| They stretched long arms to hinder me and prick | T |
| Make me shamefast | F |
| Nay they laughed pulling at my slipping gown | N |
| Would have laid bare | K |
| To chance men on the hillside looking down | N |
| The whiteness there | K |
| Close by the blackwoods is the bathing pool | B |
| The men have made | F |
| I was no sport for stars no bramble's fool | B |
| In the trees' shade | F |
| But when I stood with limbs and body free | M |
| And gleaming fair | K |
| The little kind ferns screened and covered me | M |
| Like Agnes' hair | K |
| I slipped into the shallow water felt | F |
| The fine brown sand | F |
| Of the creek bottom shuddered splashed and knelt | F |
| Too cold to stand | F |
| Happy and shivering with trees overhead | F |
| Fern walls around | F |
| I listened to the water talking led | F |
| To praise by sound | F |
| So I have felt the wind and water's kiss | I |
| Though I'm a maid | F |
| Better be man than be a girl and miss | I |
| Feeling afraid | F |
Lesbia Harford
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