A Short Song Of Congratulation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF AGAG CHCH EGEG CICJLONG EXPECTED one and twenty | A |
Ling'ring year at last has flown | B |
Pomp and pleasure pride and plenty | A |
Great Sir John are all your own | B |
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Loosen'd from the minor's tether | C |
Free to mortgage or to sell | D |
Wild as wind and light as feather | C |
Bid the slaves of thrift farewell | D |
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Call the Bettys Kates and Jenneys | E |
Ev'ry name that laughs at care | F |
Lavish of your Grandsire's guineas | E |
Show the spirit of an heir | F |
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All that prey on vice and folly | A |
Joy to see their quarry fly | G |
Here the gamester light and jolly | A |
There the lender grave and sly | G |
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Wealth Sir John was made to wander | C |
Let it wander as it will | H |
See the jocky see the pander | C |
Bid them come and take their fill | H |
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When the bonny blade carouses | E |
Pockets full and spirits high | G |
What are acres What are houses | E |
Only dirt or wet or dry | G |
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If the Guardian or the Mother | C |
Tell the woes of willful waste | I |
Scorn their counsel and their pother | C |
You can hang or drown at last | J |
Samuel Johnson
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