The Gipsy Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HIJI KLML C AD| 'Come try your skill kind gentlemen | A |
| A penny for three tries ' | B |
| Some threw and lost some threw and won | C |
| A ten a penny prize | D |
| - | |
| She was a tawny gipsy girl | E |
| A girl of twenty years | F |
| I liked her for the lumps of gold | G |
| That jingled from her ears | F |
| - | |
| I liked the flaring yellow scarf | H |
| Bound loose about her throat | I |
| I liked her showy purple gown | J |
| And flashy velvet coat | I |
| - | |
| A man came up too loose of tongue | K |
| And said no good to her | L |
| She did not blush as Saxons do | M |
| Or turn upon the cur | L |
| - | |
| She fawned and whined 'Sweet gentleman | C |
| A penny for three tries ' | - |
| But oh the den of wild things in | A |
| The darkness of her eyes | D |
Ralph Hodgson
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