What I Have Seen #3 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDD EEFGHG IIJJK LLMNON PPQL L| I saw two youths both were fair in the face | A |
| They had set out foot to foot in life's race | A |
| But one said to the other 'I say now my brother | B |
| You are going a little too slow | C |
| The world will look on and say 'See Josy John ' | D |
| We must put on more style now you know ' | D |
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| So he tipped a plug hat on one side of his pate | E |
| And strutted along with a Jockey Club gait | E |
| And he carried a cane and said 'It is plain | F |
| I am too fine a fellow to toil | G |
| I can gamble and bet and a good living get | H |
| But my hands are too pretty to soil | G |
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| 'My friend in the rear you are slow I am fast | I |
| I am up with the times I am first you are last | I |
| So I guess I will leave you aw if it won't grieve you | J |
| I'll wait for you when I get through | J |
| Or when up on the hill I'll remem bah you still | K |
| And aw mayhap I'll come and help you ' | - |
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| I saw him pass on with a strut through the street | L |
| Saw him stopped by a score of 'good boys' for a treat | L |
| While the calm 'Josy John' went quietly on | M |
| And kept his lips free from the bowl | N |
| Worked at whatever came turned from sin and from shame | O |
| And wrote 'Purity ' 'Truth ' in his soul | N |
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| I saw two men one was fair to behold | P |
| The other a drunken sot bloated and bold | P |
| One stood on the mountain and drank of God's fountain | Q |
| The other drank beer in the street | L |
| Yet both started alike but one made a 'strike ' | - |
| Which ended you see in defeat | L |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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