Blackmwore Maidens Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACDC EDEDFCDC ECECGCEC CDCDHCHC DGDGGCEC| The primrwose in the shade do blow | A |
| The cowslip in the zun | B |
| The thyme upon the down do grow | A |
| The clote where streams do run | B |
| An' where do pretty maidens grow | A |
| An' blow but where the tow'r | C |
| Do rise among the bricken tuns | D |
| In Blackmwore by the Stour | C |
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| If you could zee their comely gait | E |
| An' pretty faces' smiles | D |
| A trippen on so light o' waight | E |
| An' steppen off the stiles | D |
| A gwain to church as bells do swing | F |
| An' ring 'ithin the tow'r | C |
| You'd own the pretty maidens' place | D |
| Is Blackmwore by the Stour | C |
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| If you vrom Wimborne took your road | E |
| To Stower or Paladore | C |
| An' all the farmers' housen show'd | E |
| Their daughters at the door | C |
| You'd cry to bachelors at hwome | G |
| Here come 'ithin an hour | C |
| You 'll vind ten maidens to your mind | E |
| In Blackmwore by the Stour | C |
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| An' if you look'd 'ithin their door | C |
| To zee em in their place | D |
| A doen housework up avore | C |
| Their smilen mother's face | D |
| You'd cry Why if a man would wive | H |
| An' thrive 'ithout a dow'r | C |
| Then let en look en out a wife | H |
| In Blackmwore by the Stour | C |
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| As I upon my road did pass | D |
| A school house back in May | G |
| There out upon the be ten grass | D |
| Wer ma dens at their play | G |
| An' as the pretty souls did tweil | G |
| An' smile I cried The flow'r | C |
| O' beauty then is still in bud | E |
| In Blackmore by the Stour | C |
William Barnes
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