Berries Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHCCFICJCCCC DGKHELEL FCCCMNCNCKOKFPEP BQBQCFBFBRSREKGKETFU CVAVAPKP| There 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
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