Play Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA BAAAACDEAAAAAA| Play play while as yet it is day | A |
| While the sweet sunlight is warm on the brae | A |
| Hark to the lark singing lay upon lay | A |
| While the brown squirrel eats nuts on the spray | A |
| And in the apple leaves chatters the jay | A |
| Play play even as they | A |
| What though the cowslips ye pluck will decay | A |
| What though the grass will be presently hay | A |
| What though the noise that ye make should dismay | A |
| Old Mrs Clutterbuck over the way | A |
| Play play for your locks will grow gray | A |
| Even the marbles ye sport with are clay | A |
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| Play ay in the crowded highway | A |
| Was it not made for you Yea my lad yea | A |
| True that the babes you were bid to convey | A |
| Home may fall out or be stolen or stray | A |
| True that the tip cat you toss about may | A |
| Strike an old gentleman cause him to sway | A |
| Stumble and p'raps be run o'er by a dray | A |
| Still why delay Play my son play | A |
| Barclay and Perkins not you have to pay | A |
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| Play play your sonatas in A | B |
| Heedless of what your next neighbour may say | A |
| Dance and be gay as a faun or a fay | A |
| Sing like the lad in the boat on the bay | A |
| Sing play if your neighbours inveigh | A |
| Feebly against you they're lunatics eh | C |
| Bang twang clatter and clang | D |
| Strum thrum upon fiddle and drum | E |
| Neigh bray simply obey | A |
| All your sweet impulses stop not or stay | A |
| Rattle the bones hit a tinbottom'd tray | A |
| Hard with the fireshovel hammer away | A |
| Is not your neighbour your natural prey | A |
| Should he confound you it's only in play | A |
Charles Stuart Calverley
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