The Broken Heart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAAABCDEED AAFFGGAAFAAF| News o' grief had overteaken | A |
| Dark eyed Fanny now vorseaken | A |
| There she zot wi' breast a heaven | A |
| While vrom zide to zide wi' grieven | A |
| Vell her head wi' tears a creepen | A |
| Down her cheaks in bitter weepen | A |
| There wer still the ribbon bow | B |
| She tied avore her hour ov woe | C |
| An' there wer still the hans that tied it | D |
| Hangen white | E |
| Or wringen tight | E |
| In ceare that drowned all ceare bezide it | D |
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| When a man wi' heartless slighten | A |
| Mid become a maiden's blighten | A |
| He mid cearelessly vorseake her | F |
| But must answer to her Meaker | F |
| He mid slight wi' selfish blindness | G |
| All her deeds o' loven kindness | G |
| God wull waigh 'em wi' the slighten | A |
| That mid be her love's requiten | A |
| He do look on each deceiver | F |
| He do know | A |
| What weight o' woe | A |
| Do break the heart ov ev'ry griever | F |
William Barnes
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