What I Have Come For Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GG H IIFF JJKK| I HAVE come with my verses I think I may claim | A |
| It is not the first time I have tried on the same | A |
| They were puckered in rhyme they were wrinkled in wit | B |
| But your hearts were so large that they made them a fit | B |
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| I have come not to tease you with more of my rhyme | C |
| But to feel as I did in the blessed old time | C |
| I want to hear him with the Brobdingnag laugh | D |
| We count him at least as three men and a half | D |
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| I have come to meet judges so wise and so grand | E |
| That I shake in my shoes while they're shaking my hand | E |
| And the prince among merchants who put back the crown | F |
| When they tried to enthrone him the King of the Town | F |
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| I have come to see George Yes I think there are four | G |
| If they all were like these I could wish there were more | G |
| I have come to see one whom we used to call 'Jim ' | - |
| I want to see oh don't I want to see him | H |
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| I have come to grow young on my word I declare | I |
| I have thought I detected a change in my hair | I |
| One hour with 'The Boys' will restore it to brown | F |
| And a wrinkle or two I expect to rub down | F |
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| Yes that's what I've come for as all of us come | J |
| When I meet the dear Boys I could wish I were dumb | J |
| You asked me you know but it's spoiling the fun | K |
| I have told what I came for my ditty is done | K |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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