Black Sheep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DD EE FF AGCG HH II GG| Black Sheep Black Sheep | A |
| Have you any wool | B |
| That I have my Master | C |
| Three bags full | B |
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| One is for the mother who prays for me at night | D |
| A gift of broken promises to count by candle light | D |
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| One is for the tried friend who raised me when I fell | E |
| A gift of weakling's tinsel oaths that strew the path to hell | E |
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| And one is for the true love the heaviest of all | F |
| That holds the pieces of a faith a careless hand let fall | F |
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| Black Sheep Black Sheep | A |
| Have you ought to say | G |
| A word to each my Master | C |
| Ere I go my way | G |
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| A word unto my mother to bid her think o' me | H |
| Only as a little lad playing at her knee | H |
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| A word unto my tried friend to bid him see again | I |
| Two laughing lads in Springtime a racing down the glen | I |
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| A word unto my true love a single word to pray | G |
| If one day I cross her path to turn her eyes away | G |
Theodosia Garrison
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