Florrie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEGHBHB IGIGJBJB| Because I was a wonton wild | A |
| And welcomed many a lover | B |
| Who is the father of my child | A |
| I wish I could discover | B |
| For though I know it is not right | C |
| In tender arms to tarry | D |
| A barmaid has to be polite | C |
| To Tom and Dick and Harry | D |
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| My truest love was Poacher Jim | E |
| I wish my babe was his'n | F |
| Yet I can't father it on him | E |
| Because he was in prison | G |
| As uniforms I like I had | H |
| A soldier and a sailor | B |
| Then there was Pete the painter lad | H |
| And Timothy the tailor | B |
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| Though virtue hurt you vice ain't nice | I |
| They say to err is human | G |
| Alas one pays a bitter price | I |
| It's hell to be a woman | G |
| Oh dear Why was I born a lass | J |
| Who hated to say No sir | B |
| I'd better in my sorry pass | J |
| Blame Mister Simms the grocer | B |
Robert William Service
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