Agnes And The Hill-man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBCDD EE FG BB HH IJ GG KK LL GG KK LL MM DD NN NBNCTRANSLATED FROM THE DANISH | A |
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Agnes went through the meadows a weeping | B |
Fowl are a singing | B |
There stood the hill man heed thereof keeping | B |
Agnes fair Agnes | C |
Come to the hill fair Agnes with me | D |
The reddest of gold will I give unto thee | D |
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Twice went Agnes the hill round about | E |
Then wended within left the fair world without | E |
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In the hillside bode Agnes three years thrice told o er | F |
For the green earth sithence fell she longing full sore | G |
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There she sat and lullaby sang in her singing | B |
And she heard how the bells of England were ringing | B |
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Agnes before her true love did stand | H |
May I wend to the church of the English Land | H |
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To England s Church well mayst thou be gone | I |
So that no hand thou lay the red gold upon | J |
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So that when thou art come the churchyard anear | G |
Thou cast not abroad thy golden hair | G |
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So that when thou standest the church within | K |
To thy mother on bench thou never win | K |
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So that when thou hearest the high God s name | L |
No knee unto earth thou bow to the same | L |
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Hand she laid on all gold that was there | G |
And cast abroad her golden hair | G |
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And when the church she stood within | K |
To her mother on bench straight did she win | K |
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And when she heard the high God s name | L |
Knee unto earth she bowed to the same | L |
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When all the mass was sung to its end | M |
Home with her mother dear did she wend | M |
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Come Agnes into the hillside to me | D |
For thy seven small sons greet sorely for thee | D |
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Let them greet let them greet as they have will to do | N |
For never again will I hearken thereto | N |
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Weird laid he on her sore sickness he wrought | N |
Fowl are a singing | B |
That self same hour to death was she brought | N |
Agnes fair Agnes | C |
William Morris
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