The Petit Vieux Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEE FFGG HHBB AADD

Sow your wild oats in your youth so we're always toldA
But I say with deeper sooth Sow them when you're oldA
I'll be wise till I'm about seventy or soB
Then by Gad I'll blossom out as an ancient beauB
I'll assume a dashing air laugh with loud Ha haC
How my grandchildren will stare at their grandpapaD
Their perfection aureoled I will scandalizeE
Won't I be a hoary old sinner in their eyesE
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Watch me how I'll learn to chaff barmaids in a barF
Scotches daily gayly quaff puff a fierce cigarF
I will haunt the Tango teas at the stage door standG
Wait for Dolly Dimpleknees bouquet in my handG
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Then at seventy I'll take flutters at rouletteH
While at eighty hope I'll make good at poker yetH
And in fashionable togs to the races goB
Gayest of the gay old dogs ninety years or soB
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Sow your wild oats while you're young that's what you are toldA
Don't believe the foolish tongue sow 'em when you're oldA
Till you're threescore years and ten take my humble tipD
Sow your nice tame oats and then Hi boys Let 'er ripD

Robert Service



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