Tie The Knot Tightly Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBCDCCE FGFGHIHJBJ KKLMMLNENE OOPQQPRERE SFTTTTTTT UTVVTWTWT| Launching our from the ship | A |
| ha ha courtship | A |
| Oh the misty matrimonial sea | B |
| Let the cable hang lightly | B |
| but tie the knot tightly | B |
| So the hoary sailors tell me | B |
| As we are just launching our nuptial canoes | C |
| Enroute for some haven we know not what | D |
| Old mariner' views | C |
| 'twere wrong to refuse | C |
| So oblige us with a workmanlike knot | E |
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| And tie the knot tightly good pastor | F |
| Invent one that will not come loose | G |
| For tho' sad it is true that people slip thro' | F |
| Or squirm and wriggle out of the noose | G |
| To love and to cherish | H |
| We will they reply | I |
| Till vital pow'rs perish | H |
| Of course or course | J |
| Until we di until we di | B |
| Until we divorce | J |
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| With that ever firm cord | K |
| ha ha concord | K |
| We may reckon on a tie that will last | L |
| Till the joys and the sorrows | M |
| of earthly tomorrows | M |
| Lie forgotten in the grave of the Past | L |
| But we are not convicts so spare us that joke | N |
| Of welding the chain while the iron is hot | E |
| And we are not oxen so make us no yoke | N |
| Just a good and honest old fashioned knot | E |
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| If there must be a lock | O |
| ha ha wedlock | O |
| Hang the key up where it will not found | P |
| Yet be sure and not loose it | Q |
| we may want to use it | Q |
| When our jolly golden wedding comes round | P |
| Tho's here's a stray husband and ther's a stray wife | R |
| Who once just as fondly combined their lot | E |
| Determin'd are we on union for life | R |
| And we want at least a fifty year knot | E |
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| I must lay off my hood ha ha girlhood | S |
| As I robe me in my bridal array | F |
| I'm a little bit frightened | T |
| my features thus whitened | T |
| Pearly powder I'll dispense with today | T |
| Yet why should I tremble He suits to a T | T |
| And I so he tells me suit him to a dot | T |
| So now as you see our notions agree | T |
| We will that you for a true lover's knot | T |
| - | |
| On attaining this age ha ha marriage | U |
| Single blessedness I bid thee adieu | T |
| While dividing each trouble | V |
| my joys I shall double | V |
| If the half of what he tells me is true | T |
| Though men are uncertain take men as they go | W |
| I'm bent on retaining the one I've got | T |
| There's a proverb you know two strings to one beau | W |
| So suppose we try a double beau knot | T |
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