Want And I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCC DDCCEEFFC CGGCCHH IIJJCCKK DDLLIIBM NNOODDCC PPFFCCPQ CCDDKKRR DDSSCCBM| Who's there who's there who was it tried | A |
| To force the entrance I've denied | A |
| An 'twere a friend I'd gladly borne it | B |
| But no 'twas Want I could have sworn it | B |
| I heard thy voice old witch I know thee | C |
| Avaunt thou evil hag beshrew thee | C |
| God's curse why seekest thou to find me | C |
| Away to all black years behind me | C |
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| To torture me was thine endeavor | D |
| My body from my soul to sever | D |
| Of pride and courage to deprive me | C |
| And into beggary to drive me | C |
| Begone where thousand devils burn | E |
| Begone nor evermore return | E |
| Begone most wretched thou of creatures | F |
| And hide for aye thine hateful features | F |
| Beloved ope the door in pity | C |
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| No friend have I in all the city | C |
| Save thee then open to my call | G |
| The night is bleak the snowflakes fall | G |
| Thine own old Want am I believe me | C |
| Ah what delight wilt thou receive me | C |
| I found when I from thee had parted | H |
| No friend but he was fickle hearted | H |
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| Away old hag Thou liest lo | I |
| Thou harbinger of pain and woe | I |
| Away am I thine only friend | J |
| Thy lovers pale they have no end | J |
| Thou vile one may the devil take thee | C |
| Begone and no more visits make me | C |
| For Yiddish writers not to mention | K |
| Men hold thee no such rare invention | K |
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| 'Tis true yet those must wait my leisure | D |
| To be with thee is now my pleasure | D |
| I love thy black and curling hair | L |
| I love thy wounded heart's despair | L |
| I love thy sighs I love to swallow | I |
| Thy tears and all thy songs to follow | I |
| Oh great indeed might I but show it | B |
| My love for thee my pale faced poet | M |
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| Away I've heard all that before | N |
| And am a writer mark no more | N |
| Instead of verses wares I tell | O |
| And candy and tobacco sell | O |
| My life is sweet my life is bitter | D |
| I'm ready and a prompt acquitter | D |
| Oh smarter traders there are many | C |
| Yet live I well and turn a penny | C |
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| A dealer then wilt thou remain | P |
| Forever from the pen abstain | P |
| Good resolutions time disperses | F |
| Thou yet shalt hunger o'er thy verses | F |
| But vainly seeking to excuse thee | C |
| Because thou dost tonight refuse me | C |
| Then open fool I tell thee plain | P |
| That we perforce shall meet again | Q |
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| Begone the way that I direct thee | C |
| I've millionaires now to protect me | C |
| No need to beg no need to borrow | D |
| Nor fear a penniless tomorrow | D |
| Nor walk with face of blackest omen | K |
| To thrill the hearts of stupid foemen | K |
| Who fain my pride to earth would bring | R |
| Because forsooth I sweetly sing | R |
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| Ho ho ere thou art grown much older | D |
| Thy millionaires will all grow colder | D |
| Thou soon shalt be forgotten by them | S |
| They've other things to occupy them | S |
| Just now with thee they're playing kindly | C |
| But fortune's wheel is turning blindly | C |
| To grind thy pleasures ere thou know it | B |
| And thou art left to me my poet | M |
Morris Rosenfeld
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