The Knight's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB C CDEFEF CGC AHAH DI CJ KLKMNM OP PIQI ERSRTUUU VWWWXYX ZUZUA2YA2Y B2QB2QC2BC2C2C2C2C2C 2C2C2C2C2C2C2B

I'll tell thee everything I canA
There's little to relateB
I saw an aged aged manA
A sitting on a gateB
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'Who are you aged man ' I saidC
'And how is it you live '-
And his answer trickled through my headC
Like water through a sieveD
He said 'I look for butterfliesE
That sleep among the wheatF
I make them into mutton piesE
And sell them in the streetF
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I sell them unto men ' he saidC
'Who sail on stormy seasG
And that's the way I get my breadC
A trifle if you please '-
But I was thinking of a planA
To dye one's whiskers greenH
And always use so large a fanA
That they could not be seenH
-
So having no reply to giveD
To what the old man said I criedI
'Come tell me how you live '-
And thumped him on the headC
His accents mild took up the taleJ
-
He said 'I go my waysK
And when I find a mountain rillL
I set it in a blazeK
And thence they make a stuff they callM
Rowland's Macassar OilN
Yet twopence halfpenny is allM
They give me for my toil '-
-
But I was thinking of a wayO
To feed oneself on batterP
And so go on from day to day '-
Getting a little fatterP
I shook him well from side to sideI
Until his face was blueQ
'Come tell me how you live ' I criedI
'And what it is you do '-
-
He said 'I hunt for haddocks' eyesE
Among the heather brightR
And work them into waistcoat buttonsS
In the silent nightR
And these I do not sell for goldT
Or coin of silvery shineU
But for a copper halfpennyU
And that will purchase nineU
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'I sometimes dig for buttered rollsV
Or set limed twigs for crabsW
I sometimes search the grassy knollsW
For wheels of Hansom cabsW
And that's the way' he gave a winkX
'By which I get my wealthY
And very gladly will I drinkX
Your Honour's noble health '-
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I heard him then for I had justZ
Completed my designU
To keep the Menai bridge from rustZ
By boiling it in wineU
I thanked him much for telling meA2
The way he got his wealthY
But chiefly for his wish that heA2
Might drink my noble healthY
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And now if e'er by chance I putB2
My fingers into glueQ
Or madly squeeze a right hand footB2
Into a left hand shoeQ
Or if I drop upon my toeC2
A very heavy weightB
I weep for it reminds me soC2
Of that old man I used to knowC2
Whose look was mild whose speech was slowC2
Whose hair was whiter than the snowC2
Whose face was very like a crowC2
With eyes like cinders all aglowC2
Who seemed distracted with his woeC2
Who rocked his body to and froC2
And muttered mumblingly and lowC2
As if his mouth were full of doughC2
Who snorted like a buffaloC2
That summer evening long agoC2
A sitting on a gateB

Lewis Carroll



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