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' orA
'Ways and Means' or 'A Sitting On A Gate'B
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I'll tell thee everything I canC
There's little to relateB
I saw an aged aged manC
A sitting on a gateB
'Who are you aged man ' I saidB
'And how is it you live '-
And his answer trickled through my headB
Like water through a sieveD
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He said 'I look for butterfliesE
That sleep among the wheatB
I make them into mutton piesE
And sell them in the streetB
I sell them unto men ' he saidB
'Who sail on stormy seasF
And that's the way I get my breadB
A trifle if you please '-
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But I was thinking of a planC
To dye one's whiskers greenG
And always use so large a fanC
That it could not be seenG
So having no reply to giveD
To what the old man saidB
I cried 'Come tell me how you live '-
And thumped him on the headB
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His accents mild took up the taleH
He said 'I go my waysI
And when I find a mountain rillJ
I set it in a blazeI
And thence they make a stuff they callK
Rowland's Macassar OilL
Yet twopence halfpenny is allK
They give me for my toil '-
-
But I was thinking of a wayM
To feed oneself on batterN
And so go on from day to dayM
Getting a little fatterN
I shook him well from side to sideB
Until his face was blueO
'Come tell me how you live ' I criedB
'And what it is you do '-
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He said 'I hunt for haddocks' eyesE
Among the heather brightB
And work them into waistcoat buttonsP
In the silent nightB
And these I do not sell for goldB
Or coin of silvery shineQ
But for a copper halfpennyQ
And that will purchase nineQ
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'I sometimes dig for buttered rollsR
Or set limed twigs for crabsS
I sometimes search the grassy knollsS
For wheels of hansom cabsS
And that's the way' he gave a winkT
'By which I get my wealthU
And very gladly will I drinkT
Your Honor's noble health '-
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I heard him then for I had justB
Completed my designQ
To keep the Menai bridge from rustB
By boiling it in wineQ
I thanked him much for telling meV
The way he got his wealthU
But chiefly for his wish that heV
Might drink my noble healthU
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And now if e'er by chance I putB
My fingers into glueO
Or madly squeeze a right hand footB
Into a left hand shoeO
Or if I drop upon my toeB
A very heavy weightB
I weep for it reminds me soB
Of that old man I used to knowB
Whose look was mild whose speech was slowB
Whose hair was whiter than the snowB
Whose face was very like a crowB
With eyes like cinders all aglowB
Who seemed distracted with his woeB
Who rocked his body to and froB
And muttered mumblingly and lowB
As if his mouth were full of doughB
Who snorted like a buffaloB
That summer evening long agoB
A sitting on a gateB

Lewis Carroll



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