The Poor Girl's Meditation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHEIJKLK MNONPQRQ STUTVIPI| I AM sitting here | A |
| Since the moon rose in the night | B |
| Kindling a fire | C |
| And striving to keep it alight | B |
| The folk of the house are lying | D |
| In slumber deep | E |
| The geese will be gabbling soon | F |
| The whole of the land is asleep | E |
| - | |
| May I never leave this world | G |
| Until my ill luck is gone | H |
| Till I have cows and sheep | E |
| And the lad that I love for my own | I |
| I would not think it long | J |
| The night I would lie at his breast | K |
| And the daughters of spite after that | L |
| Might say the thing they liked best | K |
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| Love takes the place of hate | M |
| If a girl have beauty at all | N |
| On a bed that was narrow and high | O |
| A three month I lay by the wall | N |
| When I bethought on the lad | P |
| That I left on the brow of the hill | Q |
| I wept from dark until dark | R |
| And my cheeks have the tear tracks still | Q |
| - | |
| And O young lad that I love | S |
| I am no mark for your scorn | T |
| All you can say of me is | U |
| Undowered I was born | T |
| And if I've no fortune in hand | V |
| Nor cattle and sheep of my own | I |
| This I can say O lad | P |
| I am fitted to lie my lone | I |
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