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