Nancy - A Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI JKJL MNON KPQR| You ask me dear Nancy what makes me presume | A |
| That you cherish a secret affection for me | B |
| When we see the Flow'rs bud don't we look for the Bloom | A |
| Then sweetest attend while I answer to thee | B |
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| When we Young Men with pastimes the Twilight beguile | C |
| I watch your plump cheek till it dimples with joy | D |
| And observe that whatever occasions the smile | C |
| You give me a glance but provokingly coy | D |
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| Last Month when wild Strawberries pluckt in the Grove | E |
| Like beads on the tall seeded grass you had strung | F |
| You gave me the choicest I hop'd 'twas for Love | G |
| And I told you my hopes while the Nightingale sung | F |
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| Remember the Viper 'twas close at your feet | H |
| How you started and threw yourself into my arms | I |
| Not a Strawberry there was so ripe nor so sweet | H |
| As the lips which I kiss'd to subdue your alarms | I |
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| As I pull'd down the clusters of Nuts for my Fair | J |
| What a blow I receiv'd from a strong bending bough | K |
| Though Lucy and other gay lasses were there | J |
| Not one of them show'd such compassion as you | L |
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| And was it compassion by Heaven 'twas more | M |
| A telltale betrays you that blush on your cheek | N |
| Then come dearest Maid all your trifling give o'er | O |
| And whisper what Candour will teach you to speak | N |
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| Can you stain my fair Honour with one broken vow | K |
| Can you say that I've ever occasion'd a pain | P |
| On Truth's honest base let your tenderness grow | Q |
| I swear to be faithful again and again | R |
Robert Bloomfield
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