The Three Tailors Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDBEEB CCBFFB CCBFFB CCBCCB CCBGGB CCBDDB| I shall tell you in rhyme how once on a time | A |
| Three tailors tramped up to the inn Ingleheim | A |
| On the Rhine lovely Rhine | B |
| They were broke but the worst of it all they were curst | C |
| With that malady common to tailors a thirst | C |
| For wine lots of wine | B |
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| Sweet host quoth the three we're hard up as can be | D |
| Yet skilled in the practice of cunning are we | D |
| On the Rhine genial Rhine | B |
| And we pledge you we will impart you that skill | E |
| Right quickly and fully providing you'll fill | E |
| Us with wine cooling wine | B |
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| But that host shook his head and he warily said | C |
| Though cunning be good we take money instead | C |
| On the Rhine thrifty Rhine | B |
| If ye fancy ye may without pelf have your way | F |
| You'll find that there's both host and the devil to pay | F |
| For your wine costly wine | B |
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| Then the first knavish wight took his needle so bright | C |
| And threaded its eye with a wee ray of light | C |
| From the Rhine sunny Rhine | B |
| And in such a deft way patched a mirror that day | F |
| That where it was mended no expert could say | F |
| Done so fine 't was for wine | B |
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| The second thereat spied a poor little gnat | C |
| Go toiling along on his nose broad and flat | C |
| Towards the Rhine pleasant Rhine | B |
| Aha tiny friend I should hate to offend | C |
| But your stockings need darning which same did he mend | C |
| All for wine soothing wine | B |
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| And next there occurred what you'll deem quite absurd | C |
| His needle a space in the wall thrust the third | C |
| By the Rhine wondrous Rhine | B |
| And then all so spry he leapt through the eye | G |
| Of that thin cambric needle nay think you I'd lie | G |
| About wine not for wine | B |
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| The landlord allowed with a smile he was proud | C |
| To do the fair thing by that talented crowd | C |
| On the Rhine generous Rhine | B |
| So a thimble filled he as full as could be | D |
| Drink long and drink hearty my jolly friends three | D |
| Of my wine filling wine | B |
Eugene Field
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