Older Than You Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDAA EEFFGGHH IIJJKKEEWe are younger in years Yes that is true | A |
But in some things we are older than you | A |
For instance you sometimes say with a smile | B |
'It will do to drink wine once in a while ' | C |
We say 'It will not do at all ' | C |
Wine is an imp of old Alcohol | D |
So are gin and beer and cider too | A |
If you drink up them they will eat up you | A |
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'Cider is not a strong drink ' you say | E |
Ah but my friend it opens the way | E |
For brandy and whiskey to follow fast | F |
It has done it many a time in the past | F |
It tempts and teases the appetite | G |
Let it alone boys keep to the right | G |
Onward and upward we mean to go | H |
Heaven is reached that way you know | H |
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People who drink are behind the time | I |
They are back with darkness and woe and crime | I |
This age is progressive You people who drink | J |
Though ever so little just pause and think | J |
Think of the anguish that liquor makes | K |
Think of the hearts that it burdens and breaks | K |
Let it alone stop drinking to day | E |
This is what we the children say | E |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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