Blind Man's Buff Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFFGGHHIIJJKKLL EMNNOOPPQERRSSTTCEUU VEWWXXPPYYGGTTZA2B2P A2ZC2C2BBD2E2BBPPWhen silver snow decks Susan's clothes | A |
And jewel hangs at th' shepherd's nose | B |
The blushing bank is all my care | C |
With hearth so red and walls so fair | C |
Heap the sea coal come heap it higher | D |
The oaken log lay on the fire ' | E |
The well wash'd stools a circling row | F |
With lad and lass how fair the show | F |
The merry can of nut brown ale | G |
The laughing jest the love sick tale | G |
Till tir'd of chat the game begins | H |
The lasses prick the lads with pins | H |
Roger from Dolly twitch'd the stool | I |
She falling kiss'd the ground poor fool | I |
She blush'd so red with sidelong glance | J |
At hob nail Dick who griev'd the chance | J |
But now for Blind man's Buff they call | K |
Of each encumbrance clear the hall | K |
Jenny her silken 'kerchief folds | L |
And blear eyed Will the black lot holds | L |
Now laughing stops with Silence hush ' | E |
And Peggy Pout gives Sam a push | M |
The Blind man's arms extended wide | N |
Sam slips between O woe betide | N |
Thee clumsy Will ' but titt'ring Kate | O |
Is penn'd up in the corner straight | O |
And now Will's eyes beheld the play | P |
He thought his face was t'other way | P |
Now Kitty now what chance hast thou | Q |
Roger so near thee Trips I vow ' | E |
She catches him then Roger ties | R |
His own head up but not his eyes | R |
For thro' the slender cloth he sees | S |
And runs at Sam who slips with ease | S |
His clumsy hold and dodging round | T |
Sukey is tumbled on the ground | T |
See what it is to play unfair | C |
Where cheating is there's mischief there ' | E |
But Roger still pursues the chase | U |
He sees he sees ' cries softly Grace | U |
O Roger thou unskill'd in art | V |
Must surer bound go thro' thy part ' | E |
Now Kitty pert repeats the rimes | W |
And Roger turns him round three times | W |
Then pauses ere he starts but Dick | X |
Was mischief bent upon a trick | X |
Down on his hands and knees he lay | P |
Directly in the Blind man's way | P |
Then cries out Hem ' Hodge heard and ran | Y |
With hood wink'd chance sure of his man | Y |
But down he came Alas how frail | G |
Our best of hopes how soon they fail | G |
With crimson drops he stains the ground | T |
Confusion startles all around | T |
Poor piteous Dick supports his head | Z |
And fain would cure the hurt he made | A2 |
But Kitty hasted with a key | B2 |
And down his back they straight convey | P |
The cold relief the blood is stay'd | A2 |
And Hodge again holds up his head | Z |
Such are the fortunes of the game | C2 |
And those who play should stop the same | C2 |
By wholesome laws such as all those | B |
Who on the blinded man impose | B |
Stand in his stead as long a gone | D2 |
When men were first a nation grown | E2 |
Lawless they liv'd till wantonness | B |
A nd liberty began t' increase | B |
And one man lay in another's way | P |
Then laws were made to keep fair play | P |
William Blake
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