Oiling Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDEF GHGHIHIHF JKJKLMLMN| Excuse me Sweetheart if I smear | A |
| With wisdom learnt from ancient teachers | B |
| Now winter time once more is here | C |
| This grease upon your lengthy features | B |
| Behaving thus your loyal friend | D |
| No whit encourages deception | E |
| Believe me Fairest in the end | D |
| This oil will better your complexion | E |
| Fairest believe | F |
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| Did you imagine in the bag | G |
| To sleep the sleep of Rip Van Winkle | H |
| Removed from sunshine's golden flag | G |
| And duller daylight's smallest twinkle | H |
| Well have you earned your rest but yet | I |
| Although disturbance seem uncivil | H |
| Unless your cheeks and chin be wet | I |
| With oil your beauteousness will shrivel | H |
| Rarest believe | F |
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| Absorb that when for our delight | J |
| The May unpacks its lovely blossom | K |
| With beaming face with shoulders bright | J |
| You leave the bag's congenial bosom | K |
| Then shall the Lover and his Lass | L |
| Walk out toward the pitch together | M |
| And glorying in the shaven grass | L |
| Tackle with mutual faith the leather | M |
| Dearest absorb | N |
Norman Rowland Gale
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