Young Love Vi - Why Did She Marry Him? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFGHIHIGJGJIKIK| Why did she marry him Ah say why | A |
| How was her fancy caught | B |
| What was the dream that he drew her by | A |
| Or was she only bought | B |
| Gave she her gold for a girlish whim | C |
| A freak of a foolish mood | D |
| Or was it some will like a snake in him | C |
| Lay a charm upon her blood | E |
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| Love of his limbs was it that think you | F |
| Body of bullock build | G |
| Sap in the bones and spring in the thew | F |
| A lusty youth unspilled | G |
| But is it so that a maid is won | H |
| Such a maiden maid as she | I |
| Her face like a lily all white in the sun | H |
| For such mere male as he | I |
| Ah why do the fields with their white and gold | G |
| To Farmer Clod belong | J |
| Who though he hath reaped and stacked and sold | G |
| Hath never heard their song | J |
| Nay seek not an answer comfort ye | I |
| The poet heard their call | K |
| And so dear Love will I comfort me | I |
| He hath thy lease that's all | K |
Richard Le Gallienne
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