Julie-jane Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KEKE ALAL MNMN| Sing how 'a would sing | A |
| How 'a would raise the tune | B |
| When we rode in the waggon from harvesting | A |
| By the light o' the moon | B |
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| Dance how 'a would dance | C |
| If a fiddlestring did but sound | D |
| She would hold out her coats give a slanting glance | C |
| And go round and round | D |
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| Laugh how 'a would laugh | E |
| Her peony lips would part | F |
| As if none such a place for a lover to quaff | E |
| At the deeps of a heart | F |
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| Julie O girl of joy | G |
| Soon soon that lover he came | H |
| Ah yes and gave thee a baby boy | G |
| But never his name | H |
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| Tolling for her as you guess | I |
| And the baby too 'Tis well | J |
| You knew her in maidhood likewise Yes | I |
| That's her burial bell | J |
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| I suppose with a laugh she said | K |
| I should blush that I'm not a wife | E |
| But how can it matter so soon to be dead | K |
| What one does in life | E |
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| When we sat making the mourning | A |
| By her death bed side said she | L |
| Dears how can you keep from your lovers adorning | A |
| In honour of me | L |
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| Bubbling and brightsome eyed | M |
| But now O never again | N |
| She chose her bearers before she died | M |
| From her fancy men | N |
Thomas Hardy
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