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