Valediction Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BA BC DC DE FE FA GA G H IJ IK LK LM NM NOO II| I ONCE was fond of fools | A |
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| And bid them come each day | B |
| Then each one brought his tools | A |
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| The carpenter to play | B |
| The roof to strip first choosing | C |
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| Another to supply | D |
| The wood as trestles using | C |
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| To move it by and by | D |
| While here and there they ran | E |
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| And knock'd against each other | F |
| To fret I soon began | E |
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| My anger could not smother | F |
| So cried Get out ye fools | A |
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| At this they were offended | G |
| Then each one took his tools | A |
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| And so our friendship ended | G |
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| Since that I've wiser been | H |
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| And sit beside my door | I |
| When one of them is seen | J |
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| I cry Appear no more | I |
| Hence stupid knave I bellow | K |
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| At this he's angry too | L |
| You impudent old fellow | K |
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| And pray sir who are you | L |
| Along the streets we riot | M |
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| And revel at the fair | N |
| But yet we're pretty quiet | M |
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| And folks revile us ne'er | N |
| Don't call us names then please | O |
| At length I meet with ease | O |
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| For now they leave my door | I |
| 'Tis better than before | I |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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