Brookland Road Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI JKJL MNMN GOGO APAQ CDED| I was very well pleased with what I knowed | A |
| I reckoned myself no fool | B |
| Till I met with a maid on the Brookland Road | A |
| That turned me back to school | B |
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| Low down low down | C |
| Where the liddle green lanterns shine | D |
| O maids I've done with 'ee all but one | E |
| And she can never be mine | D |
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| 'Twas right in the middest of a hot June night | F |
| With thunder duntin' round | G |
| And I see her face by the fairy light | F |
| That beats from off the ground | G |
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| She only smiled and she never spoke | H |
| She smiled and went away | I |
| But when she'd gone my heart was broke | H |
| And my wits was clean astray | I |
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| O stop your ringing and let me be | J |
| Let be O Brookland bells | K |
| You'll ring Old Goodman out of the sea | J |
| Before I wed one else | L |
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| Old Goodman's Farm is rank sea sand | M |
| And was this thousand year | N |
| But it shall turn to rich plough land | M |
| Before I change my dear | N |
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| O Fairfield Church is water bound | G |
| From autumn to the spring | O |
| But it shall turn to high hill ground | G |
| Before my bells do ring | O |
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| O leave me walk on Brookland Road | A |
| In the thunder and warm rain | P |
| O leave me look where my love goed | A |
| And p'raps I'll see her again | Q |
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| Low down low down | C |
| Where the liddle green lanterns shine | D |
| O maids I've done with 'ee all but one | E |
| And she can never be mine | D |
Rudyard Kipling
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