Old Sweethearts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF AGAGHH IBJBKK| Oh Maggie do you mind the day | A |
| We went to school together | B |
| And as we stoppit by the way | A |
| I rolled you in the heather | B |
| My but you were the bonny lass | C |
| And we were awfu' late for class | C |
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| Your locks are now as white as snow | D |
| And you are ripe and wrinkled | E |
| A grandmother ten times or so | D |
| Yet how your blue eyes twinkled | E |
| At me above your spectacles | F |
| Recalling naughty neck tickles | F |
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| It must be fifty years today | A |
| I left you for the Yukon | G |
| You haven't changed your just as gay | A |
| And just as sweet to look on | G |
| But can you see in this old fool | H |
| The lad who made you late for school | H |
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| Oh Maggie ask me in to tea | I |
| And we can talk things over | B |
| And contemplate the nuptial state | J |
| For I am still your lover | B |
| And though the bell be slow to chime | K |
| We'll no be grudgin' o' the time | K |
Robert Service
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