Henry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCD EFEGE HIHIHI BJB BJMary 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 |
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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 ' | - |
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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 |
Robert Service
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