Say Goodbye When Your Chum Is Married Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCCDCDCEFEF| Now this is a rhyme that might well be carried | A |
| Gummed in your hat till the end of things | B |
| Say Good bye when your chum is married | A |
| Say Good bye while the church bell rings | B |
| Say Good bye if you ask why must you | C |
| Tis for the sake of old friendship true | C |
| For as sure as death will his wife distrust you | C |
| And lead him on to suspect you too | C |
| Say Good bye though he be a brother | D |
| Seek him not when you re married too | C |
| Things that you never would tell each other | D |
| The wives will carry as young wives do | C |
| Say Good bye ere their tongues shall strangle | E |
| The friendship pledged ere the lights grew dim | F |
| For as sure as death will those young wives wrangle | E |
| And drag you into it you and him | F |
Henry Lawson
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