Richard And Kate: Or, Fair-day. - A Suffolk Ballad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB C DBBB BEBE FBF GBGB B HIH JCK LMBM NBOB P QBQB BBBB RSRS FTFT M BUB KPJ BMBM VBVB M BWB TMTM XMXM MBMB M TYTY BBBB ZA2B2 BTBT C2 TTT LYLY D2E2TE2 BBBB S QTQT F2BG2B BTBT H2MI2M B ETE MMMM J2K2J2K2 PBPB H2 E2BL2B| 'Come Goody stop your humdrum wheel | A |
| Sweep up your orts and get your Hat | B |
| Old joys reviv'd once more I feel | A |
| 'Tis Fair day ay and more than that | B |
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| The Deliberation | C |
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| 'Have you forgot Kate prithee say | D |
| 'How many Seasons here we've tarry'd | B |
| 'Tis Forty years this very day | B |
| 'Since you and I old Girl were married | B |
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| 'Look out the Sun shines warm and bright | B |
| 'The Stiles are low the paths all dry | E |
| 'I know you cut your corns last night | B |
| 'Come be as free from care as I | E |
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| 'For I'm resolv'd once more to see | F |
| 'That place where we so often met | B |
| 'Though few have had more cares than we | F |
| 'We've none just now to make us fret ' | - |
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| Kate scorn'd to damp the generous flame | G |
| That warm'd her aged Partner's breast | B |
| Yet ere determination came | G |
| She thus some trifling doubts express'd | B |
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| Difficulties Consent | B |
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| 'Night will come on when seated snug | H |
| 'And you've perhaps begun some tale | I |
| 'Can you then leave your dear stone mug | H |
| 'Leave all the folks and all the Ale ' | - |
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| 'Ay Kate I wool because I know | J |
| 'Though time has been we both could run | C |
| 'Such days are gone and over now | K |
| 'I only mean to see the fun ' | - |
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| She straight slipp'd off the Wall and Band Terms used in spinning | L |
| And laid aside her Lucks and Twitches | M |
| And to the Hutch a chest she reach'd her hand | B |
| And gave him out his Sunday Breeches | M |
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| His Mattock he behind the door | N |
| And Hedging gloves again replac'd | B |
| And look'd across the yellow Moor | O |
| And urg'd his tott'ring Spouse to haste | B |
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| The Walk to the Fair | P |
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| The day was up the air serene | Q |
| The Firmament without a cloud | B |
| The Bee humm'd o'er the level green | Q |
| Where knots of trembling Cowslips bow'd | B |
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| And RICHARD thus with heart elate | B |
| As past things rush'd across his mind | B |
| Over his shoulder talk'd to KATE | B |
| Who snug tuckt up walk'd slow behind | B |
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| 'When once a gigling Mawther you | R |
| 'And I a redfac'd chubby Boy | S |
| 'Sly tricks you play'd me not a few | R |
| 'For mischief was your greatest joy | S |
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| 'Once passing by this very Tree | F |
| 'A Gotch pitcher of Milk I'd been to fill | T |
| 'You shoulder'd me then laugh'd to see | F |
| 'Me and my Gotch spin down the Hill' | T |
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| Discourse on past Days | M |
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| 'Tis true ' she said 'but here behold | B |
| 'And marvel at the course of Time | U |
| 'Though you and I are both grown old | B |
| 'This Tree is only in its prime ' | - |
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| 'Well Goody don't stand preaching now | K |
| 'Folks don't preach Sermons at a FAIR | P |
| 'We've rear'd Ten Boys and Girls you know | J |
| 'And I'll be bound they'll all be there ' | - |
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| Now friendly nods and smiles had they | B |
| From many a kind Fair going face | M |
| And many a pinch KATE gave away | B |
| While RICHARD kept his usual pace | M |
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| At length arriv'd amidst the throng | V |
| Grand children bawling hem'd them round | B |
| And dragg'd them by the skirts along | V |
| Where gingerbread bestrew'd the ground | B |
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| The Arrival Country Sports | M |
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| And soon the aged couple spy'd | B |
| Their lusty Sons and Daughters dear | W |
| When RICHARD thus exulting cried | B |
| 'Did'nt I tell you they'd be here ' | - |
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| The cordial greetings of the soul | T |
| Were visible in every face | M |
| Affection void of all controul | T |
| Govern'd with a resistless grace | M |
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| 'Twas good to see the honest strife | X |
| Which should contribute most to please | M |
| And hear the long recounted life | X |
| Of infant tricks and happy days | M |
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| But now as at some nobler places | M |
| Amongst the Leaders 'twas decreed | B |
| Time to begin the DICKY RACES | M |
| More fam'd for laughter than for speed | B |
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| Recollections | M |
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| RICHARD look'd on with wond'rous glee | T |
| And prais'd the Lad who ehanc'd to win | Y |
| 'KATE wan't I such a one as he | T |
| 'As like him ay as pin to pin | Y |
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| 'Full Fifty years are pass'd away | B |
| 'Since I rode this same ground about | B |
| 'Lord I was lively as the day | B |
| 'I won the High lows out and out | B |
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| 'I'm surely growing young again | Z |
| 'I feel myself so kedge and plump | A2 |
| 'From head to foot I've not one pain | B2 |
| 'Nay hang me if I cou'd 'nt jump ' | - |
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| Thus spoke the ALE in RICHARD'S pate | B |
| A very little made him mellow | T |
| But still he lov'd his faithful KATE | B |
| Who whisper'd thus 'My good old fellow | T |
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| The Departure | C2 |
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| 'Remember what you promis'd me | T |
| 'And see the Sun is getting low | T |
| 'The Children want an hour ye see | T |
| 'To talk a bit before we go ' | - |
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| Like youthful Lover most complying | L |
| He turn'd and chuckt her by the chin | Y |
| Then all across the green grass hieing | L |
| Right merry faces all akin | Y |
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| Their farewell quart beneath a | D2 |
| That droop'd its branches from above | E2 |
| Awak'd the pure felicity | T |
| That waits upon PARENTAL LOVE | E2 |
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| KATE view'd her blooming Daughters round | B |
| And Sons who shook her wither'd hand | B |
| Her features spoke what joy she found | B |
| But utterance had made a stand | B |
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| An old Man's Joy | S |
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| The Children toppled on the green | Q |
| And bowl'd their fairings down the hill | T |
| Richard with pride beheld the scene | Q |
| Nor could he for his life sit still | T |
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| A Father's uncheck'd feelings gave | F2 |
| A tenderness to all he said | B |
| 'My Boys how proud am I to have | G2 |
| 'My name thus round the Country spread | B |
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| 'Through all my days I've labour'd hard | B |
| 'And could of pains and Crosses tell | T |
| 'But this is Labour's great reward | B |
| 'To meet ye thus and see ye well | T |
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| 'My good old Partner when at home | H2 |
| 'Sometimes with wishes mingles tears | M |
| 'Goody says I let what wool come | I2 |
| 'We've nothing for them but our pray'rs | M |
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| Old Man's Joy continued | B |
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| 'May you be all as old as I | E |
| 'And see you Sons to manhood grow | T |
| 'And many a time before you die | E |
| 'Be just as pleas'd as I am now ' | - |
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| Then raising still his Mug and Voice | M |
| 'An Old Man's weakness don't despise | M |
| 'I love you well my Girls and Boys | M |
| 'GOD bless you all ' so said his eyes | M |
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| For as he spoke a big round drop | J2 |
| Fell bounding on his ample sleeve | K2 |
| A witness which he could not stop | J2 |
| A witness which all hearts believe | K2 |
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| Thou FILIAL PIETY wert there | P |
| And round the ring benignly bright | B |
| Dwelt in the luscious half shed tear | P |
| And in the parting word Good Night | B |
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| The Return home | H2 |
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| With thankful Hearts and strengthen'd Love | E2 |
| The poor old PAIR supremely blest | B |
| Saw the Sun sink behind the grove | L2 |
| And gain'd once more their lowly rest | B |
Robert Bloomfield
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