The Ballad Of The Proverbs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH IJKLMNOH PPJFQRSH TUCVWXYH ZA2UB2So rough the goat will scratch it cannot sleep | A |
So often goes the pot to the well that it breaks | B |
So long you heat iron it will glow | C |
so heavily you hammer it it shatters | D |
So good is the man as his praise | E |
so far he will go and he's forgotten | F |
so bad he behaves and he's despised | G |
So loud you cry Christmas it comes | H |
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So glib you talk you end up in contradictions | I |
So good is your credit as the favors you got | J |
So much you promise that you will back out | K |
So doggedly you beg that your wish is granted | L |
so high climbs the price when you want a thing | M |
so much you want it that you pay the price | N |
so familiar it gets to you you want it no more | O |
So loud you cry Christmas it comes | H |
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So you love a dog Then feed it | P |
So long a song will run that people learn it | P |
So long you keep the fruit it will rot | J |
So hot the struggle for a spot that it is won | F |
so cool you keep your act that your spirit freezes | Q |
so hurriedly you act that you run into bad luck | R |
so tight you embrace that your catch slips away | S |
So loud you cry Christmas it comes | H |
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So you scoff and laugh and the fun is gone | T |
So you crave and spend and lose your shirt | U |
So candid you are no blow can be too low | C |
So good as a gift should a promise be | V |
So if you love God you obey the Church | W |
So when you give much you borrow much | X |
So shifting winds turn to storm | Y |
So loud you cry Christmas it comes | H |
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Prince so long as a fool persists he grows wiser | Z |
so round the world he goes but return he will | A2 |
so humbled and beaten back into servility | U |
So loud you cry Christmas it is here | B2 |
Franaois Villon
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