Don't Drink Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCA DEEFGHID ECCJJKAE L MNNL KA O BBKA| Don't drink boys don't | A |
| There is nothing of happiness pleasure or cheer | B |
| In brandy in whiskey in rum ale or beer | B |
| If they cheer you when drunk you are certain to pay | C |
| In headaches and crossness the following day | C |
| Don't drink boys don't | A |
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| Boys let it alone | D |
| Turn your back on your deadliest enemy Drink | E |
| An assassin disguised nor for one moment think | E |
| As some rashly say that | F |
| true | G |
| women admire | H |
| The man who can boast that he's playing with fire | I |
| Boys let it alone | D |
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| No boys don't drink | E |
| If the habit's begun stop now stop to day | C |
| Ere the spirit of thirst leads you on and away | C |
| Into vice shame and drunkenness This is the goal | J |
| Where the spirit of thirst leads the slave of the bowl | J |
| No boys | K |
| don't | A |
| drink | E |
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| Boys touch not nor taste | L |
| Don't think you can stop at the social 'First Glass ' | - |
| Too many have boasted that power alas | M |
| And found they were slaves to this seeming good friend | N |
| And have grown into drunkards and knaves in the end | N |
| Boys touch not nor taste | L |
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| Don't drink boys | K |
| Don't | A |
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| If the loafers and idlers scoff never heed | O |
| True men and true women will wish you 'God speed ' | - |
| There is nothing of purity pleasure or cheer | B |
| To be gotten from whiskey wine brandy or beer | B |
| Don't drink boys | K |
| Don't | A |
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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