Tramps Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DEFE GHGH IJIJ KBKB LMLM NBNB OMOM ABAB PHPH AAAA| Oh roses roses everywhere but only one for me | A |
| But one wild rose for me my boy your face that's like the morn's | B |
| My rose of roses dear my lad my dark eyed Romany | A |
| The world may keep its roses now that gave me only thorns | B |
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| Oh song and singing everywhere the woods are wild with song | C |
| One simple song I knew my lad you crooned it in my ears | B |
| It cheered my way by night and day but oh the way was long | C |
| And all the hard world gave to me was evil words and sneers | B |
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| Oh song and blossoms everywhere and nature full of love | D |
| But one sweet look of love was mine and that you gave my joy | E |
| A look of love a look of trust they helped my heart enough | F |
| They helped me bear the look of scorn the world's black look my boy | E |
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| Oh spring and love are everywhere soft breezes kiss and woo | G |
| Your kiss was all I had my son to ease me of my woe | H |
| But oh it helped me far dear heart how far I only knew | G |
| But otherwise nor kiss nor smile but only curse and blow | H |
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| But now I'm going to die my boy and now I'm going to rest | I |
| The road was long and tired am I and only you will care | J |
| Give me a kiss O boy I bore I did what I thought best | I |
| But it was bad for me my lad O boy whom I did bear | J |
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| 'Your father ' Ask me not of him He was a tramp a thief | K |
| And I I was a country girl a wayward so they say | B |
| They kept too strict perhaps you see and he he brought relief | K |
| I went with him a woman tramp and here I am to day | B |
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| My dream of bliss was brief ah me Wild spring had played its part | L |
| A vagabond part in vagabond blood that mates with any kind | M |
| I woke one morn upon the straw with you upon my heart | L |
| The man was gone my all was gone and shame was left behind | M |
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| Since then I've tramped the road my lad and faced the rain and sun | N |
| In snow and sleet I've trudged and begged with you hugged in my arms | B |
| Oh few would give a wanton work or kindly word dear one | N |
| A baby at her breast you see they drove me from their farms | B |
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| Now you are big and strong my boy and you are twelve years young | O |
| Oh grasp your chance when I am gone and leave the past behind | M |
| Perhaps by you as 'tis your due some fortune may be wrung | O |
| From what I missed in life and love some good luck of some kind | M |
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| Now I am going to die my boy just lean me 'gainst that tree | A |
| And dig my grave and lay me in and make no more delay | B |
| Cut all the wildflowers down around and throw them there you see | A |
| And bring a thorn and plant it here when I am laid away | B |
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| Perhaps you'll come again some day when you are big and grown | P |
| And have a wife and boy yourself but do not let them know | H |
| They might not understand it lad so you must come alone | P |
| And tell your mother how it goes the one who loved you so | H |
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| 'Tis birds and blossoms everywhere and now how strange I see | A |
| How life and love are smiling down O face that's like the morn's | A |
| Come lay me in my gipsy grave you dug beneath the tree | A |
| Away from all the roses there and deep among the thorns | A |
Madison Julius Cawein
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