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 E2E2WWB2F2B2ORA

IA
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Her eyes are wild her head is bareB
The sun has burnt her coal black hairB
Her eyebrows have a rusty stainC
And she came far from over the mainC
She has a baby on her armD
Or else she were aloneE
And underneath the hay stack warmF
And on the greenwood stoneE
She talked and sung the woods amongG
And it was in the English tongueG
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IIA
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Sweet babe they say that I am madH
But nay my heart is far too gladH
And I am happy when I singI
Full many a sad and doleful thingI
Then lovely baby do not fearJ
I pray thee have no fear of meK
But safe as in a cradle hereL
My lovely baby thou shalt beK
To thee I know too much I oweM
I cannot work thee any woeM
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IIIA
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A fire was once within my brainC
And in my head a dull dull painC
And fiendish faces one two threeK
Hung at my breast and pulled at meK
But then there came a sight of joyN
It came at once to do me goodO
I waked and saw my little boyN
My little boy of flesh and bloodP
Oh joy for me that sight to seeK
For he was here and only heK
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IV-
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Suck little babe oh suck againQ
It cools my blood it cools my brainC
Thy lips I feel them baby theyR
Draw from my heart the pain awayR
Oh press me with thy little handS
It loosens something at my chestT
About that tight and deadly bandS
I feel thy little fingers prestT
The breeze I see is in the treeK
It comes to cool my babe and meK
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VK
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Oh love me love me little boyN
Thou art thy mother's only joyN
And do not dread the waves belowM
When o'er the sea rock's edge we goM
The high crag cannot work me harmD
Nor leaping torrents when they howlU
The babe I carry on my armD
He saves for me my precious soulV
Then happy lie for blest am IA
Without me my sweet babe would dieA
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VIA
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Then do not fear my boy for theeK
Bold as a lion will I beK
And I will always be thy guideW
Through hollow snows and rivers wideW
I'll build an Indian bower I knowM
The leaves that make the softest bedX
And if from me thou wilt not goM
But still be true till I am deadX
My pretty thing then thou shalt singI
As merry as the birds in springI
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VIIA
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Thy father cares not for my breastT
'Tis thine sweet baby there to restT
'Tis all thine own and if its hueY
Be changed that was so fair to viewY
'Tis fair enough for thee my doveA
My beauty little child is flownE
But thou wilt live with me in loveA
And what if my poor cheek be brownZ
'Tis well for me thou canst not seeK
How pale and wan it else would beK
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VIIIA
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Dread not their taunts my little LifeA
I am thy father's wedded wifeA
And underneath the spreading treeK
We two will live in honestyK
If his sweet boy he could forsakeA2
With me he never would have stayedB2
From him no harm my babe can takeA2
But he poor man is wretched madeB2
And every day we two will prayR
For him that's gone and far awayR
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IXK
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I'll teach my boy the sweetest thingsK
I'll teach him how the owlet singsK
My little babe thy lips are stillC2
And thou hast almost sucked thy fillC2
Where art thou gone my own dear childD2
What wicked looks are those I seeK
Alas alas that look so wildD2
It never never came from meK
If thou art mad my pretty ladH
Then I must be for ever sadH
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XK
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Oh smile on me my little lambE2
For I thy own dear mother amE2
My love for thee has well been triedW
I've sought thy father far and wideW
I know the poisons of the shadeB2
I know the earth nuts fit for foodF2
Then pretty dear be not afraidB2
We'll find thy father in the woodO
Now laugh and be gay to the woods awayR
And there my babe we'll live for ayeA

William Wordsworth



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