O Silly Love! O Cunning Love! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBEB FBGBGHIJ KLALMNON GPNPDQAQ RSTSUQMQ| O silly love O cunning love | A |
| An old maid to trepan | B |
| I cannot go about my work | C |
| For loving of a man | B |
| I cannot bake I cannot brew | D |
| And do the best I can | B |
| I burn the bread and chill the mash | E |
| Through loving of a man | B |
| - | |
| Shrove Tuesday last I tried and tried | F |
| To turn the cakes in pan | B |
| And dropt the batter on the floor | G |
| Through thinking of a man | B |
| My mistress screamed my master swore | G |
| Boys cursed me in a troop | H |
| The cat was all the friends I had | I |
| Who helped to clean it up | J |
| - | |
| Last Christmas eve from off the spit | K |
| I took the goose to table | L |
| Or should have done but teasing Love | A |
| Did make me quite unable | L |
| And down slipt dish and goose and all | M |
| With din and clitter clatter | N |
| All but the dog fell foul on me | O |
| He licked the broken platter | N |
| - | |
| Although I'm ten years past a score | G |
| Too old to play the fool | P |
| My mistress says I must give o'er | N |
| My service for a school | P |
| Good faith What must I do and do | D |
| To keep my service still | Q |
| I'll give the winds my thoughts to love | A |
| Indeed and so I will | Q |
| - | |
| And if the wind my love should lose | R |
| Right foolish were the play | S |
| For I should mourn what I had lost | T |
| And love another day | S |
| With crosses and with losses | U |
| Right double were the ill | Q |
| So I'll e'en bear with love and all | M |
| Alack and so I will | Q |
John Clare
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