Her Eyes Are Wild Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDEFEGG A HHIIJKLKMM A CCKKNONPKK QCRRSTSTKK K NNMMDUDVAA A KKWWMXMXII A TTYYAEAZKK A AAKKA2B2A2B2RR K KKC2C2D2KD2KHH K E2E2WWB2F2B2ORAI | A |
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Her eyes are wild her head is bare | B |
The sun has burnt her coal black hair | B |
Her eyebrows have a rusty stain | C |
And she came far from over the main | C |
She has a baby on her arm | D |
Or else she were alone | E |
And underneath the hay stack warm | F |
And on the greenwood stone | E |
She talked and sung the woods among | G |
And it was in the English tongue | G |
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II | A |
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Sweet babe they say that I am mad | H |
But nay my heart is far too glad | H |
And I am happy when I sing | I |
Full many a sad and doleful thing | I |
Then lovely baby do not fear | J |
I pray thee have no fear of me | K |
But safe as in a cradle here | L |
My lovely baby thou shalt be | K |
To thee I know too much I owe | M |
I cannot work thee any woe | M |
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III | A |
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A fire was once within my brain | C |
And in my head a dull dull pain | C |
And fiendish faces one two three | K |
Hung at my breast and pulled at me | K |
But then there came a sight of joy | N |
It came at once to do me good | O |
I waked and saw my little boy | N |
My little boy of flesh and blood | P |
Oh joy for me that sight to see | K |
For he was here and only he | K |
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IV | - |
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Suck little babe oh suck again | Q |
It cools my blood it cools my brain | C |
Thy lips I feel them baby they | R |
Draw from my heart the pain away | R |
Oh press me with thy little hand | S |
It loosens something at my chest | T |
About that tight and deadly band | S |
I feel thy little fingers prest | T |
The breeze I see is in the tree | K |
It comes to cool my babe and me | K |
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V | K |
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Oh love me love me little boy | N |
Thou art thy mother's only joy | N |
And do not dread the waves below | M |
When o'er the sea rock's edge we go | M |
The high crag cannot work me harm | D |
Nor leaping torrents when they howl | U |
The babe I carry on my arm | D |
He saves for me my precious soul | V |
Then happy lie for blest am I | A |
Without me my sweet babe would die | A |
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VI | A |
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Then do not fear my boy for thee | K |
Bold as a lion will I be | K |
And I will always be thy guide | W |
Through hollow snows and rivers wide | W |
I'll build an Indian bower I know | M |
The leaves that make the softest bed | X |
And if from me thou wilt not go | M |
But still be true till I am dead | X |
My pretty thing then thou shalt sing | I |
As merry as the birds in spring | I |
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VII | A |
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Thy father cares not for my breast | T |
'Tis thine sweet baby there to rest | T |
'Tis all thine own and if its hue | Y |
Be changed that was so fair to view | Y |
'Tis fair enough for thee my dove | A |
My beauty little child is flown | E |
But thou wilt live with me in love | A |
And what if my poor cheek be brown | Z |
'Tis well for me thou canst not see | K |
How pale and wan it else would be | K |
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VIII | A |
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Dread not their taunts my little Life | A |
I am thy father's wedded wife | A |
And underneath the spreading tree | K |
We two will live in honesty | K |
If his sweet boy he could forsake | A2 |
With me he never would have stayed | B2 |
From him no harm my babe can take | A2 |
But he poor man is wretched made | B2 |
And every day we two will pray | R |
For him that's gone and far away | R |
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IX | K |
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I'll teach my boy the sweetest things | K |
I'll teach him how the owlet sings | K |
My little babe thy lips are still | C2 |
And thou hast almost sucked thy fill | C2 |
Where art thou gone my own dear child | D2 |
What wicked looks are those I see | K |
Alas alas that look so wild | D2 |
It never never came from me | K |
If thou art mad my pretty lad | H |
Then I must be for ever sad | H |
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X | K |
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Oh smile on me my little lamb | E2 |
For I thy own dear mother am | E2 |
My love for thee has well been tried | W |
I've sought thy father far and wide | W |
I know the poisons of the shade | B2 |
I know the earth nuts fit for food | F2 |
Then pretty dear be not afraid | B2 |
We'll find thy father in the wood | O |
Now laugh and be gay to the woods away | R |
And there my babe we'll live for aye | A |
William Wordsworth
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