Wedding, A Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDC EEFGGF HHIJJI IIGABG KKIIII LLMNNM KKKIIK IIIEEI OPPCCP AANMMQ KKIRRI OOIIII MMEIIE SSIMMI MMKTTK MMMMMM IIUIIU

I tell thee Dick where I have beenA
Where I the rarest things have seenB
Oh things without compareC
Such sights again can not be foundD
In any place on English groundD
Be it at wake or fairC
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At Charing Cross hard by the wayE
Where we thou know'st do sell our hayE
There is a house with stairsF
And there did I see coming downG
Such folks as are not in our townG
Vorty at least in pairsF
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Amongst the rest one pest'lent fineH
His beard no bigger tho' than thineH
Walk'd on before the restI
Our landlord looks like nothing to himJ
The King God bless him 'twould undo himJ
Should he go still so drestI
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At Course a park without all doubtI
He should have first been taken outI
By all the maids i' th' townG
Though lusty Roger there had beenA
Or little George upon the greenB
Or Vincent of the crownG
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But wot you what The youth was goingK
To make an end of all his woingK
The parson for him staidI
Yet by his leave for all his hasteI
He did not so much wish all pastI
Perchance as did the maidI
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The maid and thereby hangs a taleL
For such a maid no Whitson aleL
Could ever yet produceM
No grape that's kindly ripe could beN
So round so plump so soft as sheN
Nor half so full of juyceM
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Her finger was so small the ringK
Would not stay on which they did bringK
It was too wide a peckK
And to say truth for out it mustI
It look'd like the great collar justI
About our young colt's neckK
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Her feet beneath her petticoatI
Like little mice stole in and outI
As if they fear'd the lightI
But oh she dances such a wayE
No sun upon an Easter dayE
Is half so fine a sightI
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Her cheeks so rare a white was onO
No daisie makes comparisonP
Who sees them is undoneP
For streaks of red were mingled thereC
Such as are on a Cath'rine pearC
The side that's next the SunP
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Her lips were red and one was thinA
Compared to that was next her chinA
Some bee had stung it newlyN
But Dick her eyes so guard her faceM
I durst no more upon them gazeM
Than on a Sun in JulyQ
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Her mouth so small when she does speakK
Thou'dst swear her teeth her words did breakK
That they might passage getI
But she so handled still the matterR
They came as good as ours or betterR
And are not spent a whitI
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Passion oh me how I run onO
There's that that would be thought uponO
I trow besides the brideI
The business of the kitchen's greatI
For it is fit that men should eatI
Nor was it there deniedI
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Just in the nick the Cook knock'd thriceM
And all the waiters in a triceM
His summons did obeyE
Each serving man with dish in handI
March'd boldly up like our train'd bandI
Presented and awayE
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When all the meat was on the tableS
What man of knife or teeth was ableS
To stay to be entreatedI
And this the very reason wasM
Before the parson could say graceM
The company was seatedI
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Now hats fly off and youths carouseM
Healths first go round and then the houseM
The bride's came thick and thickK
And when 'twas named another's healthT
Perhaps he made it hers by stealthT
And who could help it DickK
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O' th' sudden up they rise and danceM
Then sit again and sigh and glanceM
Then dance again and kissM
Thus sev'ral ways the time did passM
Till ev'ry woman wish'd her placeM
And ev'ry man wish'd hisM
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By this time all were stol'n asideI
To counsel and undress the brideI
But that he must not knowU
But yet 'twas thought he guest her mindI
And did not mean to stay behindI
Above an hour or soU

Sir John Suckling



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