Three Airs For The Beggar's Opera, Air Xxii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCC CDCDEEE| Youth's the season made for joys | A |
| Love is then our duty | B |
| She alone who that employs | A |
| Well deserves her beauty | B |
| Let's be gay | C |
| While we may | C |
| Beauty's a flower despis'd in decay | C |
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| Let us drink and sport to day | C |
| Ours is not tomorrow | D |
| Love with youth flies swift away | C |
| Age is nought but sorrow | D |
| Dance and sing | E |
| Time's on the wing | E |
| Life never knows the return of spring | E |
John Gay
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