My Jolly Friend's Secret Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGFG HFHFIDID JKJKLMLM FCFCE EK CNCNNONO NPNPEFEF ENENEQEQ| Ah friend of mine how goes it | A |
| Since you've taken you a mate | B |
| Your smile though plainly shows it | A |
| Is a very happy state | B |
| Dan Cupid's necromancy | C |
| You must sit you down and dine | D |
| And lubricate your fancy | C |
| With a glass or two of wine | D |
| - | |
| And as you have 'deserted ' | - |
| As my other chums have done | E |
| While I laugh alone diverted | F |
| As you drop off one by one | E |
| And I've remained unwedded | F |
| Till you see look here that I'm | G |
| In a manner 'snatched bald headed' | F |
| By the sportive hand of Time | G |
| - | |
| I'm an 'old 'un ' yes but wrinkles | H |
| Are not so plenty quite | F |
| As to cover up the twinkles | H |
| Of the BOY ain't I right | F |
| Yet there are ghosts of kisses | I |
| Under this mustache of mine | D |
| My mem'ry only misses | I |
| When I drown 'em out with wine | D |
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| From acknowledgment so ample | J |
| You would hardly take me for | K |
| What I am a perfect sample | J |
| Of a 'jolly bachelor' | K |
| Not a bachelor has being | L |
| When he laughs at married life | M |
| But his heart and soul's agreeing | L |
| That he ought to have a wife | M |
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| Ah ha I old chum this claret | F |
| Like Fatima holds the key | C |
| Of the old Blue Beardish garret | F |
| Of my hidden mystery | C |
| Did you say you'd like to listen | E |
| Ah my boy the 'SAD NO MORE ' | - |
| And the tear drops that will glisten | E |
| TURN THE CATCH UPON THE DOOR | K |
| - | |
| And sit you down beside me | C |
| And put yourself at ease | N |
| I'll trouble you to slide me | C |
| That wine decanter please | N |
| The path is kind o' mazy | N |
| Where my fancies have to go | O |
| And my heart gets sort o' lazy | N |
| On the journey don't you know | O |
| - | |
| Let me see when I was twenty | N |
| It's a lordly age my boy | P |
| When a fellow's money's plenty | N |
| And the leisure to enjoy | P |
| And a girl with hair as golden | E |
| As THAT and lips well quite | F |
| As red as THIS I'm holdin' | E |
| Between you and the light | F |
| - | |
| And eyes and a complexion | E |
| Ah heavens le' me see | N |
| Well just in this connection | E |
| DID YOU LOCK THAT DOOR FOR ME | N |
| Did I start in recitation | E |
| My past life to recall | Q |
| Well THAT'S an indication | E |
| I am purty tight that's all | Q |
James Whitcomb Riley
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