Open Table Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC BD EF E G BH BD EF E I BJ JK EF E L GM GN EF E I OP OQ EF E R ST UV EF E J EA EL EW E E XJ XY EJ E| MANY a guest I'd see to day | A |
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| Met to taste my dishes | B |
| Food in plenty is prepar'd | C |
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| Birds and game and fishes | B |
| Invitations all have had | D |
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| All proposed attending | E |
| Johnny go and look around | F |
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| Are they hither wending | E |
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| Pretty girls I hope to see | G |
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| Dear and guileless misses | B |
| Ignorant how sweet it is | H |
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| Giving tender kisses | B |
| Invitations all have had | D |
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| All proposed attending | E |
| Johnny go and look around | F |
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| Are they hither wending | E |
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| Women also I expect | I |
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| Loving tow'rd their spouses | B |
| Whose rude grumbling in their breasts | J |
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| Greater love but rouses | J |
| Invitations they've had too | K |
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| All proposed attending | E |
| Johnny go and look around | F |
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| Are they hither wending | E |
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| I've too ask'd young gentlemen | L |
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| Who are far from haughty | G |
| And whose purses are well stock'd | M |
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| Well behaved not haughty | G |
| These especially I ask'd | N |
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| All proposed attending | E |
| Johnny go and look around | F |
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| Are they hither wending | E |
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| Men I summon'd with respect | I |
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| Who their own wives treasure | O |
| Who in ogling other Fair | P |
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| Never take a pleasure | O |
| To my greetings they replied | Q |
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| All proposed attending | E |
| Johnny go and look around | F |
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| Are they hither wending | E |
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| Then to make our joy complete | R |
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| Poets I invited | S |
| Who love other's songs far more | T |
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| Than what they've indited | U |
| All acceded to my wish | V |
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| All proposed attending | E |
| Johnny go and look around | F |
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| Are they hither wending | E |
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| Not a single one appears | J |
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| None seem this way posting | E |
| All the soup boils fast away | A |
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| Joints are over roasting | E |
| Ah I fear that we have been | L |
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| Rather too unbending | E |
| Johnny tell me what you think | W |
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| None are hither wending | E |
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| Johnny run and quickly bring | E |
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| Other guests to me now | X |
| Each arriving as he is | J |
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| That's the plan I see now | X |
| In the town at once 'tis known | Y |
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| Every one's commending | E |
| Johnny open all the doors | J |
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| All are hither wending | E |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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