The Virginity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB CBCB ABAB CBAB CBCB CBCB| Try as he will no man breaks wholly loose | A |
| From his first love no matter who she be | B |
| Oh was there ever sailor free to choose | C |
| That didn't settle somewhere near the sea | B |
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| Myself it don't excite me nor amuse | C |
| To watch a pack o' shipping on the sea | B |
| But I can understand my neighbour's views | C |
| From certain things which have occured to me | B |
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| Men must keep touch with things they used to use | A |
| To earn their living even when they are free | B |
| And so come back upon the least excuse | A |
| Same as the sailor settled near the sea | B |
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| He knows he's never going on no cruise | C |
| He knows he's done and finished with the sea | B |
| And yet he likes to feel she's there to use | A |
| If he should ask her as she used to be | B |
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| Even though she cost him all he had to lose | C |
| Even though she made him sick to hear or see | B |
| Still what she left of him will mostly choose | C |
| Her skirts to sit by How comes such to be | B |
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| Parsons in pulpits tax payers in pews | C |
| Kings on your thrones you know as well as me | B |
| We've only one virginity to lose | C |
| And where we lost it there our hearts will be | B |
Rudyard Kipling
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