The Ballad Of A Bachelor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BC DD AA EE DD FF GG HH II CC FF DD JJ KK LL KK JJ KK EE CC MM NN OO CB AA| Listen ladies while I sing | A |
| The ballad of John Henry King | A |
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| John Henry was a bachelor | B |
| His age was thirty three or four | C |
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| Two maids for his affection vied | D |
| And each desired to be his bride | D |
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| And bravely did they strive to bring | A |
| Unto their feet John Henry King | A |
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| John Henry liked them both so well | E |
| To save his life he could not tell | E |
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| Which he most wished to be his bride | D |
| Nor was he able to decide | D |
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| Fair Kate was jolly bright and gay | F |
| And sunny as a summer day | F |
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| Marie was kind sedate and sweet | G |
| With gentle ways and manners neat | G |
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| Each was so dear that John confessed | H |
| He could not tell which he liked best | H |
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| He studied them for quite a year | I |
| And still found no solution near | I |
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| And might have studied two years more | C |
| Had he not walking on the shore | C |
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| Conceived a very simple way | F |
| Of ending his prolonged delay | F |
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| A way in which he might decide | D |
| Which of the maids should be his bride | D |
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| He said I'll toss into the air | J |
| A dollar and I'll toss it fair | J |
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| If heads come up I'll wed Marie | K |
| If tails fair Kate my bride shall be | K |
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| Then from his leather pocket book | L |
| A dollar bright and new he took | L |
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| He kissed one side for fair Marie | K |
| The other side for Kate kissed he | K |
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| Then in a manner free and fair | J |
| He tossed the dollar in the air | J |
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| Ye fates he cried pray let this be | K |
| A lucky throw indeed for me | K |
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| The dollar rose the dollar fell | E |
| He watched its whirling transit well | E |
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| And off some twenty yards or more | C |
| The dollar fell upon the shore | C |
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| John Henry ran to where it struck | M |
| To see which maiden was in luck | M |
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| But oh the irony of fate | N |
| Upon its edge the coin stood straight | N |
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| And there embedded in the sand | O |
| John Henry let the dollar stand | O |
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| And he will tempt his fate no more | C |
| But live and die a bachelor | B |
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| Thus ladies you have heard me sing | A |
| The ballad of John Henry King | A |
Ellis Parker Butler
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