Berries Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHCCFICJCCCC DGKHELEL FCCCMNCNCKOKFPEP BQBQCFBFBRSREKGKETFU CVAVAPKPThere was an old woman | A |
Went blackberry picking | B |
Along the hedges | C |
From Weep to Wicking | B |
Half a pottle | D |
No more she had got | E |
When out steps a Fairy | F |
From her green grot | E |
And says 'Well Jill | G |
Would 'ee pick ee mo ' | H |
And Jill she curtseys | C |
And looks just so | C |
Be off ' says the Fairy | F |
'As quick as you can | I |
Over the meadows | C |
To the little green lane | J |
That dips to the hayfields | C |
Of Farmer Grimes | C |
I've berried those hedges | C |
A score of times | C |
Bushel on bushel | D |
I'll promise'ee Jill | G |
This side of supper | K |
If'ee pick with a will ' | H |
She glints very bright | E |
And speaks her fair | L |
Then lo and behold | E |
She had faded in air | L |
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Be sure Old Goodie | F |
She trots betimes | C |
Over the meadows | C |
To Farmer Grimes | C |
And never was queen | M |
With jewelry rich | N |
As those same hedges | C |
From twig to ditch | N |
Like Dutchmen's coffers | C |
Fruit thorn and flower | K |
They shone like William | O |
And Mary's bower | K |
And be sure Old Goodie | F |
Went back to Weep | P |
So tired with her basket | E |
She scarce could creep | P |
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When she comes in the dusk | B |
To her cottage door | Q |
There's Towser wagging | B |
As never before | Q |
To see his Missus | C |
So glad to be | F |
Come from her fruit picking | B |
Back to he | F |
As soon as next morning | B |
Dawn was grey | R |
The pot on the hob | S |
Was simmering away | R |
And all in a stew | E |
And a hugger mugger | K |
Towser and Jill | G |
A boiling of sugar | K |
And the dark clear fruit | E |
That from Faerie came | T |
For syrup and jelly | F |
And blackberry jam | U |
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Twelve jolly gallipots | C |
Jill put by | V |
And one little teeny one | A |
One inch high | V |
And that she's hidden | A |
A good thumb deep | P |
Half way over | K |
From Wicking to Weep | P |
Walter De La Mare
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