Robin And Harry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDBBBBEEBBBBBB FGHHIJJJJJBBKKLMJJBB KKBBGCJBNNOOJJ| Robin to beggars with a curse | A |
| Throws the last shilling in his purse | A |
| And when the coachman comes for pay | B |
| The rogue must call another day | B |
| Grave Harry when the poor are pressing | C |
| Gives them a penny and God's blessing | C |
| But always careful of the main | D |
| With twopence left walks home in rain | D |
| Robin from noon to night will prate | B |
| Run out in tongue as in estate | B |
| And ere a twelvemonth and a day | B |
| Will not have one new thing to say | B |
| Much talking is not Harry's vice | E |
| He need not tell a story twice | E |
| And if he always be so thrifty | B |
| His fund may last to five and fifty | B |
| It so fell out that cautious Harry | B |
| As soldiers use for love must marry | B |
| And with his dame the ocean cross'd | B |
| All for Love or the World well Lost | B |
| Repairs a cabin gone to ruin | F |
| Just big enough to shelter two in | G |
| And in his house if anybody come | H |
| Will make them welcome to his modicum | H |
| Where Goody Julia milks the cows | I |
| And boils potatoes for her spouse | J |
| Or darns his hose or mends his breeches | J |
| While Harry's fencing up his ditches | J |
| Robin who ne'er his mind could fix | J |
| To live without a coach and six | J |
| To patch his broken fortunes found | B |
| A mistress worth five thousand pound | B |
| Swears he could get her in an hour | K |
| If gaffer Harry would endow her | K |
| And sell to pacify his wrath | L |
| A birth right for a mess of broth | M |
| Young Harry as all Europe knows | J |
| Was long the quintessence of beaux | J |
| But when espoused he ran the fate | B |
| That must attend the married state | B |
| From gold brocade and shining armour | K |
| Was metamorphosed to a farmer | K |
| His grazier's coat with dirt besmear'd | B |
| Nor twice a week will shave his beard | B |
| Old Robin all his youth a sloven | G |
| At fifty two when he grew loving | C |
| Clad in a coat of paduasoy | J |
| A flaxen wig and waistcoat gay | B |
| Powder'd from shoulder down to flank | N |
| In courtly style addresses Frank | N |
| Twice ten years older than his wife | O |
| Is doom'd to be a beau for life | O |
| Supplying those defects by dress | J |
| Which I must leave the world to guess | J |
Jonathan Swift
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