No, Thank You, John Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC ADAD EFEF GHGH HCHC CICI HJHJ KAKA| I never said I loved you John | A |
| Why will you tease me day by day | B |
| And wax a weariness to think upon | A |
| With always 'do' and 'pray' | C |
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| You know I never loved you John | A |
| No fault of mine made me your toast | D |
| Why will you haunt me with a face as wan | A |
| As shows an hour old ghost | D |
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| I dare say Meg or Moll would take | E |
| Pity upon you if you'd ask | F |
| And pray don't remain single for my sake | E |
| Who can't perform that task | F |
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| I have no heart Perhaps I have not | G |
| But then you're mad to take offence | H |
| That I don't give you what I have not got | G |
| Use your own common sense | H |
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| Let bygones be bygones | H |
| Don't call me false who owed not to be true | C |
| I'd rather answer 'No' to fifty Johns | H |
| Than answer 'Yes' to you | C |
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| Let's mar our pleasant days no more | C |
| Song birds of passage days of youth | I |
| Catch at to day forget the days before | C |
| I'll wink at your untruth | I |
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| Let us strike hands as hearty friends | H |
| No more no less and friendship's good | J |
| Only don't keep in view ulterior ends | H |
| And points not understood | J |
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| In open treaty Rise above | K |
| Quibbles and shuffling off and on | A |
| Here's friendship for you if you like but love | K |
| No thank you John | A |
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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