The Ladies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBBB CEBEFGHG IJBJKLML BLKNILLL OKIPQLGL LKGKILOL GKCKKBGB RKSKCCBC| I've taken my fun where I've found it | A |
| I've rogued an' I've ranged in my time | B |
| I've 'ad my pickin' o' sweet'earts | C |
| An' four o' the lot was prime | B |
| One was an 'arf caste widow | D |
| One was a woman at Prome | B |
| One was the wife of a jemadar sais Head groom | B |
| An' one is a girl at 'ome | B |
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| Now I aren't no 'and with the ladies | C |
| For takin' 'em all along | E |
| You never can say till you've tried 'em | B |
| An' then you are like to be wrong | E |
| There's times when you'll think that you mightn't | F |
| There's times when you'll know that you might | G |
| But the things you will learn from the Yellow an' Brown | H |
| They'll 'elp you a lot with the White | G |
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| I was a young un at 'Oogli | I |
| Shy as a girl to begin | J |
| Aggie de Castrer she made me | B |
| An' Aggie was clever as sin | J |
| Older than me but my first un | K |
| More like a mother she were | L |
| Showed me the way to promotion an' pay | M |
| An' I learned about women from 'er | L |
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| Then I was ordered to Burma | B |
| Actin' in charge o' Bazar | L |
| An' I got me a tiddy live 'eathen | K |
| Through buyin' supplies off 'er pa | N |
| Funny an' yellow an' faithful | I |
| Doll in a teacup she were | L |
| But we lived on the square like a true married pair | L |
| An' I learned about women from 'er | L |
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| Then we was shifted to Neemuch | O |
| Or I might ha' been keepin' 'er now | K |
| An' I took with a shiny she devil | I |
| The wife of a nigger at Mhow | P |
| 'Taught me the gipsy folks' bolee Slang | Q |
| Kind o' volcano she were | L |
| For she knifed me one night 'cause I wished she was white | G |
| And I learned about women from 'er | L |
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| Then I come 'ome in the trooper | L |
| 'Long of a kid o' sixteen | K |
| Girl from a convent at Meerut | G |
| The straightest I ever 'ave seen | K |
| Love at first sight was 'er trouble | I |
| She didn't know what it were | L |
| An' I wouldn't do such 'cause I liked 'er too much | O |
| But I learned about women from 'er | L |
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| I've taken my fun where I've found it | G |
| An' now I must pay for my fun | K |
| For the more you 'ave known o' the others | C |
| The less will you settle to one | K |
| An' the end of it's sittin' and thinkin' | K |
| An' dreamin' Hell fires to see | B |
| So be warned by my lot which I know you will not | G |
| An' learn about women from me | B |
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| What did the Colonel's Lady think | R |
| Nobody never knew | K |
| Somebody asked the Sergeant's wife | S |
| An' she told 'em true | K |
| When you get to a man in the case | C |
| They're like as a row of pins | C |
| For the Colonel's Lady an' Judy O'Grady | B |
| Are sisters under their skins | C |
Rudyard Kipling
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