My Cuckoo Clock Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGDGD HIHIADAD| I bought a cuckoo clock | A |
| And glad was I | B |
| To hear its tick and tock | A |
| Its dulcet cry | B |
| But Jones whose wife is young | C |
| And pretty too | D |
| Winced when that bird gave tongue | C |
| Cuckoo Cuckoo | D |
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| I have a lady friend | E |
| Whom I would wed | F |
| For dalliance should end | E |
| In bridal bed | F |
| Until the thought occurred | G |
| Can she be true | D |
| And then I heard that bird | G |
| Cuckoo Cuckoo | D |
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| Though ignorance is bliss | H |
| And love be blind | I |
| Faithless may be the kiss | H |
| Of womankind | I |
| So now sweet echoes mock | A |
| My wish to woo | D |
| Confound that cursed clock | A |
| Cuckoo Cuckoo | D |
Robert Service
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