A Truthful Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDEE FFGG HHII JJKK LLMM A BBCC NNEE BBOO HHII JJPP LLHH Q BBHH| THE BRICKLAYER | A |
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| I tell this tale which is strictly true | B |
| Just by way of convincing you | B |
| How very little since things were made | C |
| Things have altered in building trade | C |
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| A year ago come the middle of March | D |
| We was building flats near the Marble Arch | D |
| When a thin young man with coal black hair | E |
| Came up to watch us working there | E |
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| Now there wasn't a trick in brick or stone | F |
| Which this young man hadn't seen or known | F |
| Nor there wasn't a tool from trowel to maul | G |
| But this young man could use 'em all | G |
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| Then up and spoke the plumbyers bold | H |
| Which was laying the pipes for the hot and cold | H |
| Since you with us have made so free | I |
| Will you kindly say what your name might be | I |
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| The young man kindly answered them | J |
| It might be Lot or Methusalem | J |
| Or it might be Moses a man I hate | K |
| Whereas it is Pharaoh surnamed the Great | K |
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| Your glazing is new and your plumbing's strange | L |
| But otherwise I perceive no change | L |
| And in less than a month if you do as I bid | M |
| I'd learn you to build me a Pyramid | M |
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| THE SAILOR | A |
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| I tell this tale which is stricter true | B |
| Just by way of convincing you | B |
| How very little since things was made | C |
| Things have altered in the shipwright's trade | C |
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| In Blackwall Basin yesterday | N |
| A China barque re fitting lay | N |
| When a fat old man with snow white hair | E |
| Came up to watch us working there | E |
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| Now there wasn't a knot which the riggers knew | B |
| But the old man made it and better too | B |
| Nor there wasn't a sheet or a lift or a brace | O |
| But the old man knew its lead and place | O |
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| Then up and spoke the caulkyers bold | H |
| Which was packing the pump in the afterhold | H |
| Since you with us have made so free | I |
| Will you kindly tell what your name might be | I |
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| The old man kindly answered them | J |
| It might be Japheth it might be Shem | J |
| Or it might be Ham though his skin was dark | P |
| Whereas it is Noah commanding the Ark | P |
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| Your wheel is new and your pumps are strange | L |
| But otherwise I perceive no change | L |
| And in less than a week if she did not ground | H |
| I'd sail this hooker the wide world round | H |
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| BOTH | Q |
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| We tell these tales which are strictest true | B |
| Just by way of convincing you | B |
| How very little since things was made | H |
| Any thing alters in any one's trade | H |
Rudyard Kipling
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