The Old Cloak Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE AFGHAEAE IJKJLELE MNANOEOE KHPHHEHE AHAHPEPE NHN HEHE CHCHQEQE| This winter's weather it waxeth cold | A |
| And frost it freezeth on every hill | B |
| And Boreas blows his blast so bold | A |
| That all our cattle are like to spill | B |
| Bell my wife she loves no strife | C |
| She said unto me quietlye | D |
| Rise up and save cow Crumbock's life | C |
| Man put thine old cloak about thee | E |
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| He O Bell my wife why dost thou flyte | A |
| Thou kens my cloak is very thin | F |
| It is so bare and over worn | G |
| A crick egrave thereon cannot renn | H |
| Then I'll no longer borrow nor lend | A |
| For once I'll new apparell'd be | E |
| To morrow I'll to town and spend | A |
| For I'll have a new cloak about me | E |
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| She Cow Crumbock is a very good cow | I |
| She has been always true to the pail | J |
| She has helped us to butter and cheese I trow | K |
| And other things she will not fail | J |
| I would be loth to see her pine | L |
| Good husband counsel take of me | E |
| It is not for us to go so fine | L |
| Man take thine old cloak about thee | E |
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| He My cloak it was a very good cloak | M |
| It hath been always true to the wear | N |
| But now it is not worth a groat | A |
| I have had it four and forty year' | N |
| Sometime it was of cloth in grain | O |
| 'Tis now but a sigh clout as you may see | E |
| It will neither hold out wind nor rain | O |
| And I'll have a new cloak about me | E |
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| She It is four and forty years ago | K |
| Sine the one of us the other did ken | H |
| And we have had betwixt us two | P |
| Of children either nine or ten | H |
| We have brought them up to women and men | H |
| In the fear of God I trow they be | E |
| And why wilt thou thyself misken | H |
| Man take thine old cloak about thee | E |
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| He O Bell my wife why dost thou flyte | A |
| Now is now and then was then | H |
| Seek now all the world throughout | A |
| Thou kens not clowns from gentlemen | H |
| They are clad in black green yellow and blue | P |
| So far above their own degree | E |
| Once in my life I'll take a view | P |
| For I'll have a new cloak about me | E |
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| She King Stephen was a worthy peer | N |
| His breeches cost him but a crown | H |
| He held them sixpence all too dear | N |
| Therefore he called the tailor 'lown ' | - |
| He was a king and wore the crown | H |
| And thou'se but of a low degree | E |
| It 's pride that puts this country down | H |
| Man take thy old cloak about thee | E |
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| He Bell my wife she loves not strife | C |
| Yet she will lead me if she can | H |
| And to maintain an easy life | C |
| I oft must yield though I'm good man | H |
| It 's not for a man with a woman to threap | Q |
| Unless he first give o'er the plea | E |
| As we began so will we keep | Q |
| And I'll take my old cloak about me | E |
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