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