Let Th' Lasses Alooan! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC DADEAAAA ABABDDDD ADADADFD GAGADDDD DADAGDGD DDDDDDDD DDDDHDHD| What a lot ov advice ther is wasted | A |
| What praichin is all thrown away | B |
| Young fowk lang for pleasures untasted | A |
| An its little they'll heed what yo say | B |
| Old fowk may have wisdom i' plenty | A |
| But they're apt to forget just one thing | C |
| What suits sixty will hardly fit twenty | A |
| An youth ivver will have its fling | C |
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| Old Jenny sat silently freeatin | D |
| Sed Alec Pray lass what's to do | A |
| But his old wife went on wi her knittin | D |
| As if shoo'd a task to get throo | E |
| Then shoo tuk off her specs and sed sadly | A |
| Awm capt ha blind some fowk can be | A |
| Ther's reason for me lukkin badly | A |
| But nowt maks a difference to thee | A |
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| Ther's awr Reuben he's hardly turned twenty | A |
| An awr Jim isn't nineteen wol May | B |
| Aw provide for em gooid things i plenty | A |
| An ne'er a wrang word to em say | B |
| But they've noa sooiner swoller'd ther drinkin | D |
| Nor they're don'd an away off they've gooan | D |
| An awm feared for aw connot help thinkin | D |
| At they dunnot let th' lasses alooan | D |
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| Ther's that forrad young hussy Sal Sankey | A |
| Awm thankful shoo's noa child o' mine | D |
| When awr Reuben's abaat shoo's fair cranky | A |
| An shoo's don'd like some grand lady fine | D |
| An Reuben's soa soft he can't see it | A |
| An aw mud as weel praich to a stooan | D |
| He does nowt but grin when aw tell him | F |
| To mind an let th' lasses alooan | D |
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| Awr Jim follers Reuben's example | G |
| He hasn't a morsel o' wit | A |
| An yond lass o' Braans shoo's a sample | G |
| Ov a gigglin young impitent chit | A |
| An he'd cheek to tell me shoo wor bonny | D |
| One like her Why shoo's just skin an booan | D |
| Awd have better nor her if awd onny | D |
| But he'd better let th' lasses alooan | D |
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| All th' four went to th' meetin last Sundy | D |
| Aw dursn't think what they'll do next | A |
| An ther worrit one on em at Mundy | D |
| Could tell what th' chap tuk for his text | A |
| Tha may laff like a child at a bubble | G |
| But thi laff may yet end in a grooan | D |
| For they're sartin to get into trubble | G |
| If they dunnot lei th' lasses alooan | D |
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| Aw connot help laffin old beauty | D |
| Tho' aw know at tha meeans to do reight | D |
| Tha's nivver neglected thi duty | D |
| An tha's kept thi lads honest an straight | D |
| Just think ha ther father behaved when | D |
| He met thee i'th' days at are gooan | D |
| Tha knows ha aw beg'd an aw slaved then | D |
| To win th' lass at aw ne'er let alooan | D |
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| Aw've nivver regretted that mornin | D |
| When aw made thi mi bonny young bride | D |
| An although we're nah past life's turnin | D |
| We still jog along side bi side | D |
| We've shared i' booath pleasures an bothers | H |
| An ther's noa reason why we should mooan | D |
| An its folly to try to stop others | H |
| For lads willn't let th' lasses alooan | D |
John Hartley
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