The Thieves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBAC DDEEFF GGAAAA| Lovers in the act despense | A |
| With such meum tuum sense | A |
| As might warningly reveal | B |
| What they must not pick or steal | B |
| And their nostrum is to say | A |
| 'I and you are both away ' | C |
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| After when they disentwine | D |
| You from me and yours from mine | D |
| Neither can be certain who | E |
| Was that I whose mine was you | E |
| To the act again they go | F |
| More completely not to know | F |
| - | |
| Theft is theft and raid is raid | G |
| Though reciprocally made | G |
| Lovers the conclusion is | A |
| Doubled sighs and jealousies | A |
| In a single heart that grieves | A |
| For lost honour among thieves | A |
Robert Graves
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