Before The Fair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HIJI KLML NOPQ| 'Lost ' 'lost ' the beeves and the bullocks | A |
| The cattle men sell and buy | B |
| Crowded upon the fair green | C |
| Low to the lightless sky | B |
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| 'Live ' 'live ' and 'Here ' 'here ' the blackbird | D |
| From the top of the bare ash tree | E |
| Over the acres whistles | F |
| With beak of yellow blee | G |
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| And climbing turning and climbing | H |
| His little stair of sound | I |
| 'Content ' 'content ' from the low hedge | J |
| The redbreast sings in a round | I |
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| And I who hear that hedge song | K |
| Will fare with all the rest | L |
| With thoughts of lust and labour | M |
| And bargain in my breast | L |
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| The bare hedge bright with rain drops | N |
| That have not fallen down | O |
| The golden crowded whin bush | P |
| Nor know these things my own | Q |
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