Lady Jane Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEAAAAFBBBDAABBC GHIAIACCBJIJDAACBKAC LBMDLANOBABJLBABLPCN BBNDBSapphics | A |
Down the green hill side fro' the castle window | B |
Lady Jane spied Bill Amaranth a workin' | C |
Day by day watched him go about his ample | D |
Nursery garden | C |
Cabbages thriv'd there wi' a mort o' green stuff | E |
Kidney beans broad beans onions tomatoes | A |
Artichokes seakale vegetable marrows | A |
Early potatoes | A |
Lady Jane cared not very much for all these | A |
What she cared much for was a glimpse o' Willum | F |
Strippin' his brown arms wi' a view to horti | B |
Cultural effort | B |
Little guessed Willum never extra vain that | B |
Up the green hill side i' the gloomy castle | D |
Feminine eyes could so delight to view his | A |
Noble proportions | A |
Only one day while in an innocent mood | B |
Moppin' his brow 'cos 'twas a trifle sweaty | B |
With a blue kerchief lo he spies a white 'un | C |
Coyly responding | G |
Oh delightsome Love Not a jot do you care | H |
For the restrictions set on human inter | I |
course by cold blooded social refiners | A |
Nor do I neither | I |
Day by day peepin' fro' behind the bean sticks | A |
Willum observed that scrap o' white a wavin' | C |
Till his hot sighs out growin' all repression | C |
Busted his weskit | B |
Lady Jane's guardian was a haughty Peer who | J |
Clung to old creeds and had a nasty temper | I |
Can we blame Willum that he hardly cared to | J |
Risk a refusal | D |
Year by year found him busy 'mid the bean sticks | A |
Wholly uncertain how on earth to take steps | A |
Thus for eighteen years he beheld the maiden | C |
Wave fro' her window | B |
But the nineteenth spring i' the Castle post bag | K |
Came by book post Bill's catalogue o' seedlings | A |
Mark'd wi' blue ink at 'Paragraphs relatin' | C |
Mainly to Pumpkins ' | L |
'W A can ' so the Lady Jane read | B |
'Strongly commend that very noble Gourd the | M |
Lady Jane first class medal ornamental | D |
Grows to a great height ' | L |
Scarce a year arter by the scented hedgerows | A |
Down the mown hill side fro' the castle gateway | N |
Came a long train and i' the midst a black bier | O |
Easily shouldered | B |
'Whose is yon corse that thus adorned wi' gourd leaves | A |
Forth ye bear with slow step ' A mourner answer'd | B |
''Tis the poor clay cold body Lady Jane grew | J |
Tired to abide in ' | L |
'Delve my grave quick then for I die to morrow | B |
Delve it one furlong fro' the kidney bean sticks | A |
Where I may dream she's goin' on precisely | B |
As she was used to ' | L |
Hardly died Bill when fro' the Lady Jane's grave | P |
Crept to his white death bed a lovely pumpkin | C |
Climb'd the house wall and over arched his head wi' | N |
Billowy verdure | B |
Simple this tale but delicately perfumed | B |
As the sweet roadside honeysuckle That's why | N |
Difficult though its metre was to tackle | D |
I'm glad I wrote it | B |
Sir Arthur Quiller-couch
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