Lydia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ CBCB| Break forth break forth O Sudbury town | A |
| And bid your yards be gay | B |
| Up all your gusty streets and down | A |
| For Lydia comes to day | B |
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| I hear it on the wharves below | C |
| And if I buy or sell | D |
| The good folk as they churchward go | C |
| Have only this to tell | D |
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| My mother just for love of her | E |
| Unlocks her carv euml d drawers | F |
| And springs of withered lavender | E |
| Drop down upon the floors | F |
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| For Lydia's bed must have the sheet | G |
| Spun out of linen sheer | H |
| And Lydia's room be passing sweet | G |
| With odors of last year | H |
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| The violet flags are out once more | I |
| In lanes salt with the sea | J |
| The thorn bush at Saint Martin's door | I |
| Grows white for such as she | J |
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| So Sudbury bid your gardens blow | C |
| For Lydia comes to day | B |
| Of all the words that I do know | C |
| I have but this to say | B |
Lizette Woodworth Reese
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