Old Tom Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IAIAJKJK LMNMFOFOThe harridan who holds the inn | A |
At which I toss a pot | B |
Is old and uglier than sin | A |
I'm glad she knows me not | B |
Indeed for me it's hard to think | C |
Although my pow's like snow | D |
She was the lass so fresh and pink | C |
I courted long ago | D |
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I wronged her yet it's sadly true | E |
She wanted to be wronged | F |
They mostly do although 'tis you | E |
The male bloke who is thonged | F |
Well anyway I left her then | G |
To sail across the sea | H |
And no doubt she had other men | G |
And soon lost sight of me | H |
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So now she is a paunchy dame | I |
And mistress of the inn | A |
With temper tart and tounge to blame | I |
Moustache and triple chin | A |
And though I have no proper home | J |
Contentedly I purr | K |
And from my whiskers wipe the foam | J |
Glad I did not wed her | K |
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Yet it's so funny sitting here | L |
To stare into her face | M |
And as I raise my mug of beer | N |
I dream of our disgrace | M |
And so I come and come each day | F |
To more and more enjoy | O |
The joke that fifty years away | F |
I was her honey boy | O |
Robert William Service
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