Berrying Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBCDDDC A BBBEFFFE A FFFGBBBG H FFFIFFFI F FFFEFFFE H FFFJFFFF| I | A |
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| My love went berrying | B |
| Where brooks were merrying | B |
| And wild wings ferrying | B |
| Heaven's amethyst | C |
| The wildflowers blessed her | D |
| My dearest Hester | D |
| The winds caressed her | D |
| The sunbeams kissed | C |
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| II | A |
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| I followed carrying | B |
| Her basket varying | B |
| Fond hopes of marrying | B |
| With hopes denied | E |
| Both late and early | F |
| She deemed me surly | F |
| And bowed her curly | F |
| Fair head and sighed | E |
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| III | A |
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| The skies look lowery | F |
| It will he showery | F |
| No longer flowery | F |
| The way I find | G |
| No use in going | B |
| 'T will soon be snowing | B |
| If you keep growing | B |
| Much more unkind | G |
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| IV | H |
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| Then looked up tearfully | F |
| And I all fearfully | F |
| Replied My dear fully | F |
| Will I explain | I |
| I love you dearly | F |
| But look not cheerly | F |
| Since all says clearly | F |
| I love in vain | I |
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| V | F |
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| Then smiled she airily | F |
| And answered merrily | F |
| With words that verily | F |
| Made me decide | E |
| And drawing tow'rd her | F |
| I there implored her | F |
| I who adored her | F |
| To be my bride | E |
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| VI | H |
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| O sweet simplicity | F |
| Of young rusticity | F |
| Without duplicity | F |
| Whom love made know | J |
| That hearts in meter | F |
| Make earth completer | F |
| And kisses sweeter | F |
| Than berries grow | F |
Madison Julius Cawein
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