Village Virtue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EFGGCHGG IIGGJJCC KKCCKKLM GGNNKKOK| Jenny was my first sweetheart | A |
| Poor lass she was none too smart | A |
| Though I swore she'd never rue it | B |
| She would never let me do it | B |
| When I tried she mad a fuss | C |
| So damn pure and virtuous | C |
| Girls should cozen all they can | D |
| Use their wiles to get their man | D |
| - | |
| June my second was no prude | E |
| Too good looking to be good | F |
| Wanton and a giddy gadder | G |
| Never knew who might have had her | G |
| Kept me mad and jumping jealous | C |
| Tempting all the other fellows | H |
| Like a wayside flower to pluck her | G |
| So at last I had to chuck her | G |
| - | |
| Now I'm settled down with Jill | I |
| And we're safely married still | I |
| She began to wail and worry | G |
| So we wedded in a hurry | G |
| Well it's quite all right that way | J |
| We're all made of common clay | J |
| And the grey haired folk that bore us | C |
| Just as wanton were before us | C |
| - | |
| June I hear now lives in London | K |
| Where I fear she's sadly undone | K |
| Jenny still as virtuous | C |
| Missed the matrimonial bus | C |
| Where our first set gossips buzzin' | K |
| Jill and I now have a dozen | K |
| Ready in their turn to prove | L |
| There's no chastity in love | M |
| - | |
| June so fickle and so fair | G |
| Common was as barber's chair | G |
| Jill provides me with good grub | N |
| Lets me go nights to the pub | N |
| Though her silver hairs are many | K |
| One eve I might call on Jenny | K |
| She may not need too much urging | O |
| Must be hell to die a virgin | K |
Robert William Service
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