It Is Time To Begin To Conclude. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DBDB BBBB BBBB EBEB BBBB FBFB BBBB GBGB HBHB| Ye Parsons desirous all sinners to save | A |
| And to make each a prig or a prude | B |
| If two thousand long years have not made us behave | A |
| It is time you began to conclude | B |
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| Ye Husbands who wish your sweet mates to grow mum | C |
| And whose tongues you have never subdued | B |
| If ten years of your reign have not made them grow dumb | C |
| It is time to begin to conclude | B |
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| Ye Matrons of men whose brown meerschaum still mars | D |
| The sweet kiss with tobacco bedewed | B |
| After pleading nine years if they still puff cigars | D |
| It is time you began to conclude | B |
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| Ye Lawyers who aim to reform all the land | B |
| And your statutes forever intrude | B |
| If five thousand lost years have not worked as you planned | B |
| It is time to begin to conclude | B |
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| Ye Lovers who sigh for the heart of a maid | B |
| And for forty four years have pursued | B |
| If two scores of young years have not taught you your trade | B |
| It is time you began to conclude | B |
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| Ye Doctors who claim to cure every ill | E |
| And so much of mock learning exude | B |
| If the Comma Bacillus still laughs at your pill | E |
| It is time to begin to conclude | B |
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| Ye Maidens of Fifty who lonely abide | B |
| Yet who heartily scout solitude | B |
| If Jack with his whiskers is not at your side | B |
| It is time to begin to conclude | B |
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| Ye Spaniards akin to the Mexican mule | F |
| And who have not fair Cuba subdued | B |
| After three bloody years of your miscreant rule | F |
| It is time you began to conclude | B |
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| We commend to your mind Bill McKinley's big toe | B |
| In a boot that is rugged and rude | B |
| When that boot and that toe give you notice to go | B |
| It is time to begin to conclude | B |
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| Walk Spanish from Cuba with Miles at your heel | G |
| And by Fitz Hugh the Southron pursued | B |
| Or you'll learn from a thrust of American steel | G |
| That it's time you began to conclude | B |
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| And Sigsbee will soon shoot it all very plain | H |
| Into Blanco's most murderous brood | B |
| That the cry from the blood of the Men of the Maine | H |
| Makes it meet for mere talk to conclude | B |
A. H. Laidlaw
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