Songs From The Beggar-s Opera: Air Iv-cotillion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDD E DFDFGGG E| Act II Scene iv Air IV Cotillion | A |
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| Youth s the season made for joys | B |
| Love is then our duty | C |
| She alone who that employs | B |
| Well deserves her beauty | C |
| Let s be gay | D |
| While we may | D |
| Beauty s a flower despised in decay | D |
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| Chorus Youth s the season etc | E |
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| Let us drink and sport to day | D |
| Ours is not to morrow | F |
| Love with youth flies swift away | D |
| Age is naught but sorrow | F |
| Dance and sing | G |
| Time s on the wing | G |
| Life never knows the return the spring | G |
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| Chorus Let us drink etc | E |
John Gay
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