Barbara Allen's Cruelty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA CACA AADA EAFA EAGA HFIJ KJGJ BALA MAMA NACA OJOF AAAA PQOQ OCFG CFCF MAMA| In Scarlet towne where I was borne | A |
| There was a faire maid dwellin | A |
| Made every youth crye wel awaye | B |
| Her name was Barbara Allen | A |
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| All in the merrye month of May | C |
| When greene buds they were swellin | A |
| Yong Jemmye Grove on his death bed lay | C |
| For love of Barbara Allen | A |
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| He sent his man unto her then | A |
| To the town where shee was dwellin | A |
| You must come to my master deare | D |
| Giff your name be Barbara Allen | A |
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| For death is printed on his face | E |
| And ore his hart is stealin | A |
| Then haste away to comfort him | F |
| O lovelye Barbara Allen | A |
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| Though death be printed on his face | E |
| And ore his harte is stealin | A |
| Yet little better shall he bee | G |
| For bonny Barbara Allen | A |
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| So slowly slowly she came up | H |
| And slowly she came nye him | F |
| And all she sayd when there she came | I |
| Yong man I think y'are dying | J |
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| He turnd his face unto her strait | K |
| With deadlye sorrow sighing | J |
| O lovely maid come pity mee | G |
| Ime on my death bed lying | J |
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| If on your death bed you doe lye | B |
| What needs the tale you are tellin | A |
| I cannot keep you from your death | L |
| Farewell sayd Barbara Allen | A |
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| He turnd his face unto the wall | M |
| As deadlye pangs he fell in | A |
| Adieu adieu adieu to you all | M |
| Adieu to Barbara Allen | A |
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| As she was walking ore the fields | N |
| She heard the bell a knellin | A |
| And every stroke did seem to saye | C |
| Unworthy Barbara Allen | A |
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| She turnd her bodye round about | O |
| And spied the corps a coming | J |
| Laye downe laye downe the corps she sayd | O |
| That I may look upon him | F |
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| With scornful eye she looked downe | A |
| Her cheeke with laughter swellin | A |
| That all her friends cryd out amaine | A |
| Unworthye Barbara Allen | A |
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| When he was dead and laid in grave | P |
| Her harte was struck with sorrowe | Q |
| O mother mother make my bed | O |
| For I shall dye to morrowe | Q |
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| Hard harted creature him to slight | O |
| Who loved me so dearlye | C |
| O that I had beene more kind to him | F |
| When he was live and neare me | G |
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| She on her death bed as she laye | C |
| Beg'd to be buried by him | F |
| And sore repented of the daye | C |
| That she did ere denye him | F |
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| Farewell she sayd ye virgins all | M |
| And shun the fault I fell in | A |
| Henceforth take warning by the fall | M |
| Of cruel Barbara Allen | A |
Thomas Percy
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