An English Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBACACDEDEAAFF AABBGHGHIHIHAAFF IIJJAAAAKEKEAAFF| A wonderful joy our eyes to bless | A |
| In her magnificent comeliness | A |
| Is an English girl of eleven stone two | B |
| And five foot ten in her dancing shoe | B |
| She follows the hounds and on she pounds | A |
| The field tails off and the muffs diminish | C |
| Over the hedges and brooks she bounds | A |
| Straight as a crow from find to finish | C |
| At cricket her kin will lose or win | D |
| She and her maids on grass and clover | E |
| Eleven maids out eleven maids in | D |
| And perhaps an occasional maiden over | E |
| Go search the world and search the sea | A |
| Then come you home and sing with me | A |
| There's no such gold and no such pearl | F |
| As a bright and beautiful English girl | F |
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| With a ten mile spin she stretches her limbs | A |
| She golfs she punts she rows she swims | A |
| She plays she sings she dances too | B |
| From ten or eleven till all is blue | B |
| At ball or drum till small hours come | G |
| Chaperon's fan conceals her yawning | H |
| She'll waltz away like a teetotum | G |
| And never go home till daylight's dawning | H |
| Lawn tennis may share her favours fair | I |
| Her eyes a dance and her cheeks a glowing | H |
| Down comes her hair but what does she care | I |
| It's all her own and it's worth the showing | H |
| Go search the world and search the sea | A |
| Then come you home and sing with me | A |
| There's no such gold and no such pearl | F |
| As a bright and beautiful English girl | F |
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| Her soul is sweet as the ocean air | I |
| For prudery knows no haven there | I |
| To find mock modesty please apply | J |
| To the conscious blush and the downcast eye | J |
| Rich in the things contentment brings | A |
| In every pure enjoyment wealthy | A |
| Blithe as a beautiful bird she sings | A |
| For body and mind are hale and healthy | A |
| Her eyes they thrill with right goodwill | K |
| Her heart is light as a floating feather | E |
| As pure and bright as the mountain rill | K |
| That leaps and laughs in the Highland heather | E |
| Go search the world and search the sea | A |
| Then come you home and sing with me | A |
| There's no such gold and no such pearl | F |
| As a bright and beautiful English girl | F |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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