Old Tom Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IAIAJKJK LMNMFOFO| The 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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