Gipsy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDC DDDEED FFDCCD DDDGGD DDGHIG DDBDDB| The poppies that in Spring I sow | A |
| In rings of radiance gleam and glow | B |
| Like lords and ladies gay | C |
| A joy are they to dream beside | D |
| As in the air of eventide | D |
| They flutter dip and sway | C |
| - | |
| For some are scarlet some are gold | D |
| While some in fairy flame unfold | D |
| And some are rose and white | D |
| There's pride of breeding in their glance | E |
| And pride of beauty as they dance | E |
| Cotillions of delight | D |
| - | |
| Yet as I lift my eyes I see | F |
| Their swarthy kindred wild and free | F |
| Who flaunt it in the field | D |
| Begone you Romanies I say | C |
| Lest you defile this bright array | C |
| Whose loveliness I shield | D |
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| My poppies are a sheen of light | D |
| They take with ecstasy the sight | D |
| And hold the heart elate | D |
| Yet why do I so often turn | G |
| To where their outcast brothers burn | G |
| With passion at my gate | D |
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| My poppies are my joy and pride | D |
| Yet wistfully I gaze outside | D |
| To where their sisters yearn | G |
| Their blowzy crimson cups afire | H |
| Their lips aflutter with desire | I |
| To give without return | G |
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| My poppies dance a minuet | D |
| Like courtiers in silk they set | D |
| My garden all aglow | B |
| Yet O the vagrants at my gate | D |
| The gipsy trulls who peer and wait | D |
| Calling the heart they know | B |
Robert William Service
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