You Can't Can Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE FFEE DDDD GCCCHC IC JC HC| I don't know how the fishes feel but I can't help thinking it odd | A |
| That a gay young flapper of a female eel should fall in love with a cod | A |
| Yet that's exactly what she did and it only goes to prove | B |
| That' what evr you do you can't put the lid on that crazy feeling Love | C |
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| Now that young tom cod was a dreadful rake and he had no wish to wed | D |
| But he feared that her foolish heart would break so this is what he said | D |
| Some fellows prize a woman's eyes and some admire her lips | E |
| While some have a taste for a tiny waist but me what I like is HIPS | E |
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| So you see my dear said that gay tom cod Exactly how I feel | F |
| Oh I hate to be unkind but I know my mind and there ain't no hips on an eel | F |
| Alas that's true said the foolish fish as she blushed to her finny tips | E |
| And with might and main though it gives me pain I'll try to develop hips | E |
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| So day and night with all her might she physical culturized | D |
| But alas and alack in the middle of her back no hump she recognized | D |
| So then she knew that her love eclipse was fated from the start | D |
| For you never yet saw an eel with hips so she died of a broken heart | D |
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| Chorus | G |
| Oh you've gotta hand it out to Love to Love you can't can Love | C |
| You'll find it from the bottom of the briny deep to the blue above | C |
| From the Belgin hare to the Polar Bear and the turtle dove | C |
| You can look where you please But from elephant to fleas | H |
| You'll never put the lid on Love | C |
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| You can look where you choose But from crabs to kangaroos | I |
| You'll never put the lid on Love | C |
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| You can look where you like But from polywogs to pike | J |
| You'll never put the lid on Love | C |
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| You can look where you please But from buffalo to bees | H |
| You'll never put the lid on Love | C |
Robert William Service
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