Henry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCD EFEGE HIHIHI BJB BJ| Mary and I were twenty two | A |
| When we were wed | B |
| A well matched pair right smart to view | A |
| The town's folk said | B |
| For twenty years I have been true | A |
| To nuptial bed | B |
| - | |
| But oh alas The march of time | C |
| Life's wear and tear | D |
| Now I am in my lusty prime | C |
| With pep to spare | D |
| While she looks ten more years than I'm | C |
| With greying hair | D |
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| 'Twas on our trip dear friends among | E |
| To New Orleans | F |
| A stranger's silly trip of tongue | E |
| Kiboshed my dreams | G |
| I heard her say 'How very young | E |
| His mother seems ' | - |
| - | |
| Child bearing gets a woman down | H |
| And six had she | I |
| Yet now somehow I feel a clown | H |
| When she's with me | I |
| When cuties smile one cannot frown | H |
| You must agree | I |
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| How often I have heard it said | B |
| 'For happy fate | J |
| In age a girl ten years ahead | B |
| Should choose her mate ' | - |
| Now twenty years to Mary wed | B |
| I know too late | J |
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