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 2C2C2C2C2C2C2BI'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 |
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'Who are you aged man ' I said | C |
'And how is it you live ' | - |
And his answer trickled through my head | C |
Like water through a sieve | D |
He said 'I look for butterflies | E |
That sleep among the wheat | F |
I make them into mutton pies | E |
And sell them in the street | F |
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I sell them unto men ' he said | C |
'Who sail on stormy seas | G |
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 | H |
And always use so large a fan | A |
That they could not be seen | H |
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So having no reply to give | D |
To what the old man said I cried | I |
'Come tell me how you live ' | - |
And thumped him on the head | C |
His accents mild took up the tale | J |
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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 ' | - |
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But I was thinking of a way | O |
To feed oneself on batter | P |
And so go on from day to day ' | - |
Getting a little fatter | P |
I shook him well from side to side | I |
Until his face was blue | Q |
'Come tell me how you live ' I cried | I |
'And what it is you do ' | - |
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He said 'I hunt for haddocks' eyes | E |
Among the heather bright | R |
And work them into waistcoat buttons | S |
In the silent night | R |
And these I do not sell for gold | T |
Or coin of silvery shine | U |
But for a copper halfpenny | U |
And that will purchase nine | U |
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'I sometimes dig for buttered rolls | V |
Or set limed twigs for crabs | W |
I sometimes search the grassy knolls | W |
For wheels of Hansom cabs | W |
And that's the way' he gave a wink | X |
'By which I get my wealth | Y |
And very gladly will I drink | X |
Your Honour's noble health ' | - |
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I heard him then for I had just | Z |
Completed my design | U |
To keep the Menai bridge from rust | Z |
By boiling it in wine | U |
I thanked him much for telling me | A2 |
The way he got his wealth | Y |
But chiefly for his wish that he | A2 |
Might drink my noble health | Y |
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And now if e'er by chance I put | B2 |
My fingers into glue | Q |
Or madly squeeze a right hand foot | B2 |
Into a left hand shoe | Q |
Or if I drop upon my toe | C2 |
A very heavy weight | B |
I weep for it reminds me so | C2 |
Of that old man I used to know | C2 |
Whose look was mild whose speech was slow | C2 |
Whose hair was whiter than the snow | C2 |
Whose face was very like a crow | C2 |
With eyes like cinders all aglow | C2 |
Who seemed distracted with his woe | C2 |
Who rocked his body to and fro | C2 |
And muttered mumblingly and low | C2 |
As if his mouth were full of dough | C2 |
Who snorted like a buffalo | C2 |
That summer evening long ago | C2 |
A sitting on a gate | B |
Lewis Carroll
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