True Johnny Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDDD EFEFGGDDD CGCGHHDDD IJIJKKDDD| Johnny sweetheart can you be true | A |
| To all those famous vows you've made | B |
| Will you love me as I love you | A |
| Until we both in earth are laid | B |
| Or shall the old wives nod and say | C |
| His love was only for a day | C |
| The mood goes by | D |
| His fancies fly | D |
| And Mary's left to sigh | D |
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| Mary alas you've hit the truth | E |
| And I with grief can but admit | F |
| Hot blooded haste controls my youth | E |
| My idle fancies veer and flit | F |
| From flower to flower from tree to tree | G |
| And when the moment catches me | G |
| Oh love goes by | D |
| Away I fly | D |
| And leave my girl to sigh | D |
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| Could you but now foretell the day | C |
| Johnny when this sad thing must be | G |
| When light and gay you'll turn away | C |
| And laugh and break the heart in me | G |
| For like a nut for true love's sake | H |
| My empty heart shall crack and break | H |
| When fancies fly | D |
| And love goes by | D |
| And Mary's left to die | D |
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| When the sun turns against the clock | I |
| When Avon waters upward flow | J |
| When eggs are laid by barn door cock | I |
| When dusty hens do strut and crow | J |
| When up is down when left is right | K |
| Oh then I'll break the troth I plight | K |
| With careless eye | D |
| Away I'll fly | D |
| And Mary here shall die | D |
Robert Graves
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