I'll Tell Thee Everything I Can Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFGCHC AIAIEC C JKLKMNM OPOPQRQ FSTSUVVV WXXXYZY A2VA2VB2ZB2Z C2RC2RD2BD2D2D2D2D2D 2D2D2D2D2D2D2B| I'll tell thee everything I can | A |
| There's little to relate | B |
| I saw an aged aged man | A |
| A sitting on a gate | B |
| 'Who are you aged man ' I said | C |
| 'And how is it you live ' | D |
| And his answer trickled through my head | C |
| Like water through a sieve | E |
| - | |
| He said 'I look for butterflies | F |
| That sleep among the wheat | G |
| I make them into mutton pies | F |
| And sell them in the street | G |
| I sell them unto men ' he said | C |
| 'Who sail on stormy seas | H |
| And that's the way I get my bread | C |
| A trifle if you please ' | - |
| - | |
| But I was thinking of a plan | A |
| To dye one's whiskers green | I |
| And always use so large a fan | A |
| That they could not be seen | I |
| So having no reply to give | E |
| To what the old man said | C |
| I cried 'Come tell me how you live ' | - |
| And thumped him on the head | C |
| - | |
| His accents mild took up the tale | J |
| He said 'I go my ways | K |
| And when I find a mountain rill | L |
| I set it in a blaze | K |
| And thence they make a stuff they call | M |
| Rowland's Macassar Oil | N |
| Yet twopence halfpenny is all | M |
| They give me for my toil ' | - |
| - | |
| But I was thinking of a way | O |
| To feed one's self on batter | P |
| And so go on from day to day | O |
| Getting a little fatter | P |
| I shook him well from side to side | Q |
| Until his face was blue | R |
| 'Come tell me how you live ' I cried | Q |
| 'And what it is you do ' | - |
| - | |
| He said 'I hunt for haddocks' eyes | F |
| Among the heather bright | S |
| And work them into waistcoat buttons | T |
| In the silent night | S |
| And these I do not sell for gold | U |
| Or coin of silvery shine | V |
| But for a copper halfpenny | V |
| And that will purchase nine | V |
| - | |
| 'I sometimes dig for buttered rolls | W |
| Or set limed twigs for crabs | X |
| I sometimes search the grassy knolls | X |
| For wheels of hansom cabs | X |
| And that's the way' he gave a wink | Y |
| 'By which I get my wealth | Z |
| And very gladly will I drink | Y |
| Your honor's noble health ' | - |
| - | |
| I heard him then for I had just | A2 |
| Completed my design | V |
| To keep the Menai bridge from rust | A2 |
| By boiling it in wine | V |
| I thanked him much for telling me | B2 |
| The way he got his wealth | Z |
| But chiefly for his wish that he | B2 |
| Might drink my noble health | Z |
| - | |
| And now if e'er by chance I put | C2 |
| My fingers into glue | R |
| Or madly squeeze a right hand foot | C2 |
| Into a left hand shoe | R |
| Or if I drop upon my toe | D2 |
| A very heavy weight | B |
| I weep for it reminds me so | D2 |
| Of that old man I used to know | D2 |
| Whose look was mild whose speech was slow | D2 |
| Whose hair was whiter than the snow | D2 |
| Whose face was very like a crow | D2 |
| With eyes like cinders all aglow | D2 |
| Who seemed distracted with his woe | D2 |
| Who rocked his body to and fro | D2 |
| And muttered mumblingly and low | D2 |
| As if his mouth were full of dough | D2 |
| Who snorted like a buffalo | D2 |
| That summer evening long ago | D2 |
| A sitting on a gate | B |
Lewis Carroll
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