The Aged Aged Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I'll tell thee everything I canA
There's little to relateB
I saw an aged aged manA
A sitting on a gateB
Who are you aged man I saidC
And how is it you liveD
And his answer trickled through my headC
Like water through a sieveE
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He said I look for butterfliesF
That sleep among the wheatG
I make them into mutton piesF
And sell them in the streetG
I sell them unto men he saidC
Who sail on stormy seasH
And that's the way I get my bread mdashI
A trifle if you pleaseH
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But I was thinking of a planA
To dye one's whiskers greenJ
And always use so large a fanA
That they could not be seenJ
So having no reply to giveE
To what the old man saidC
I cried Come tell me how you liveD
And thumped him on the headC
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His accents mild took up the taleK
He said I go my waysL
And when I find a mountain rillM
I set it in a blazeL
And thence they make a stuff they callN
Rowland's Macassar Oil mdashI
Yet twopence halfpenny is allN
They give me for my toilO
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But I was thinking of a wayP
To feed oneself on batterQ
And so go on from day to dayP
Getting a little fatterQ
I shook him well from side to sideR
Until his face was blueS
Come tell me how you live I criedR
And what it is you doS
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He said I hunt for haddocks' eyesF
Among the heather brightT
And work them into waistcoat buttonsU
In the silent nightT
And these I do not sell for goldV
Or coin of silvery shineW
But for a copper halfpennyW
And that will purchase nineW
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I sometimes dig for buttered rollsX
Or set limed twigs for crabsY
I sometimes search the grassy knollsY
For wheels of hansom cabsY
And that's the way he gave a winkZ
By which I get my wealth mdashI
And very gladly will I drinkZ
Your Honour's noble healthA2
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I heard him then for I had justB2
Completed my designW
To keep the Menai bridge from rustB2
By boiling it in wineW
I thanked him much for telling meC2
The way he got his wealthA2
But chiefly for his wish that heC2
Might drink my noble healthA2
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And now if e'er by chance I putD2
My fingers into glueS
Or madly squeeze a right hand footD2
Into a left hand shoeS
Or if I drop upon my toeE2
A very heavy weightB
I weep for it reminds me soE2
Of that old man I used to know mdashS
Whose look was mild whose speech was slowE2
Whose hair was whiter than the snowE2
Whose face was very like a crowE2
With eyes like cinders all aglowE2
Who seemed distracted with his woeE2
Who rocked his body to and froE2
And muttered mumblingly and lowE2
As if his mouth were full of doughE2
Who snorted like a buffalo mdashS
That summer evening long agoE2
A sitting on a gateB

Lewis Carroll



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