One-and-twenty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF AGAG CHCH EGEG CICJ| Long expected one and twenty | A |
| Ling'ring year at length is flown | B |
| Pride and pleasure pomp and plenty | A |
| Great are now 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 sons of thrift farewell | D |
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| Call the Betsies Kates and Jennies | E |
| All the names that banish 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 |
| There the gamester light and jolly | A |
| There the lender grave and sly | G |
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| Wealth my lad was made to wander | C |
| Let it wander as it will | H |
| Call the jockey call 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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| Should the guardian friend or mother | C |
| Tell the woes of wilful waste | I |
| Scorn their counsel scorn their pother | C |
| You can hang or drown at last | J |
Samuel Johnson
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