The Wolfe New Ballad Of Jane Roney And Mary Brown Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCBB CCBB D BB EEBB CCBB FGBB HIBB JKBB AABB AAB AABB LLBB MMAA| An igstrawnary tail I vill tell you this veek | A |
| I stood in the Court of A'Beckett the Beak | A |
| Vere Mrs Jane Roney a vidow I see | B |
| Who charged Mary Brown with a robbin of she | B |
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| This Mary was pore and in misery once | C |
| And she came to Mrs Roney it's more than twelve monce | C |
| She adn't got no bed nor no dinner nor no tea | B |
| And kind Mrs Roney gave Mary all three | B |
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| Mrs Roney kep Mary for ever so many veeks | C |
| Her conduct disgusted the best of all Beax | C |
| She kep her for nothink as kind as could be | B |
| Never thinkin that this Mary was a traitor to she | B |
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| 'Mrs Roney O Mrs Roney I feel very ill | D |
| Will you just step to the Doctor's for to fetch me a pill ' | - |
| 'That I will my pore Mary ' Mrs Roney says she | B |
| And she goes off to the Doctor's as quickly as may be | B |
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| No sooner on this message Mrs Roney was sped | E |
| Than hup gits vicked Mary and jumps out a bed | E |
| She hopens all the trunks without never a key | B |
| She bustes all the boxes and vith them makes free | B |
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| Mrs Roney's best linning gownds petticoats and close | C |
| Her children's little coats and things her boots and her hose | C |
| She packed them and she stole 'em and avay vith them did flee | B |
| Mrs Roney's situation you may think vat it vould be | B |
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| Of Mary ungrateful who had served her this vay | F |
| Mrs Roney heard nothink for a long year and a day | G |
| Till last Thursday in Lambeth ven whom should she see | B |
| But this Mary as had acted so ungrateful to she | B |
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| She was leaning on the helbo of a worthy young man | H |
| They were going to be married and were walkin hand in hand | I |
| And the Church bells was a ringing for Mary and he | B |
| And the parson was ready and a waitin for his fee | B |
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| When up comes Mrs Roney and faces Mary Brown | J |
| Who trembles and castes her eyes upon the ground | K |
| She calls a jolly pleaseman it happens to be me | B |
| I charge this yonng woman Mr Pleaseman says she | B |
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| 'Mrs Roney O Mrs Roney O do let me go | A |
| I acted most ungrateful I own and I know | A |
| But the marriage bell is a ringin and the ring you may see | B |
| And this young man is a waitin ' says Mary says she | B |
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| 'I don't care three fardens for the parson and clark | A |
| And the bell may keep ringin from noon day to dark | A |
| Mary Brown Mary Brown you must come along with me | B |
| And I think this young man is lucky to be free ' | - |
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| So in spite of the tears which bejew'd Mary's cheek | A |
| I took that young gurl to A'Beckett the Beak | A |
| That exlent Justice demanded her plea | B |
| But never a sullable said Mary said she | B |
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| On account of her conduck so base and so vile | L |
| That wicked young gurl is committed for trile | L |
| And if she's transpawted beyond the salt sea | B |
| It's a proper reward for such willians as she | B |
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| Now you young gurls of Southwark for Mary who veep | M |
| From pickin and stealin your ands you must keep | M |
| Or it may be my dooty as it was Thursday veek | A |
| To pull you all hup to A'Beckett the Beak | A |
William Makepeace Thackeray
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