Advice To Lovers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CCDD EFEF GGHH IJIJ| I knew an old man at a Fair | A |
| Who made it his twice yearly task | B |
| To clamber on a cider cask | B |
| And cry to all the yokels there | A |
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| Lovers to day and for all time | C |
| Preserve the meaning of my rhyme | C |
| Love is not kindly nor yet grim | D |
| But does to you as you to him | D |
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| Whistle and Love will come to you | E |
| Hiss and he fades without a word | F |
| Do wrong and he great wrong will do | E |
| Speak he retells what he has heard | F |
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| Then all you lovers have good heed | G |
| Vex not young Love in word or deed | G |
| Love never leaves an unpaid debt | H |
| He will not pardon nor forget | H |
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| The old man's voice was sweet yet loud | I |
| And this shows what a man was he | J |
| He'd scatter apples to the crowd | I |
| And give great draughts of cider free | J |
Robert Graves
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Billy Hamilton: A wonderful compact little poem. Interesting rhyme pattern.
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