Rose-ann Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC ABAB DEFG HBHB ABAB| Why didn't you say you was promised Rose Ann | A |
| Why didn't you name it to me | B |
| Ere ever you tempted me hither Rose Ann | A |
| So often so wearifully | C |
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| O why did you let me be near 'ee Rose Ann | A |
| Talking things about wedlock so free | B |
| And never by nod or by whisper Rose Ann | A |
| Give a hint that it wasn't to be | B |
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| Down home I was raising a flock of stock ewes | D |
| Cocks and hens and wee chickens by scores | E |
| And lavendered linen all ready to use | F |
| A dreaming that they would be yours | G |
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| Mother said She's a sport making maiden my son | H |
| And a pretty sharp quarrel had we | B |
| O why do you prove by this wrong you have done | H |
| That I saw not what mother could see | B |
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| Never once did you say you was promised Rose Ann | A |
| Never once did I dream it to be | B |
| And it cuts to the heart to be treated Rose Ann | A |
| As you in your scorning treat me | B |
Thomas Hardy
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