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 been | A |
| Where I the rarest things have seen | B |
| Oh things without compare | C |
| Such sights again can not be found | D |
| In any place on English ground | D |
| Be it at wake or fair | C |
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| At Charing Cross hard by the way | E |
| Where we thou know'st do sell our hay | E |
| There is a house with stairs | F |
| And there did I see coming down | G |
| Such folks as are not in our town | G |
| Vorty at least in pairs | F |
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| Amongst the rest one pest'lent fine | H |
| His beard no bigger tho' than thine | H |
| Walk'd on before the rest | I |
| Our landlord looks like nothing to him | J |
| The King God bless him 'twould undo him | J |
| Should he go still so drest | I |
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| At Course a park without all doubt | I |
| He should have first been taken out | I |
| By all the maids i' th' town | G |
| Though lusty Roger there had been | A |
| Or little George upon the green | B |
| Or Vincent of the crown | G |
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| But wot you what The youth was going | K |
| To make an end of all his woing | K |
| The parson for him staid | I |
| Yet by his leave for all his haste | I |
| He did not so much wish all past | I |
| Perchance as did the maid | I |
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| The maid and thereby hangs a tale | L |
| For such a maid no Whitson ale | L |
| Could ever yet produce | M |
| No grape that's kindly ripe could be | N |
| So round so plump so soft as she | N |
| Nor half so full of juyce | M |
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| Her finger was so small the ring | K |
| Would not stay on which they did bring | K |
| It was too wide a peck | K |
| And to say truth for out it must | I |
| It look'd like the great collar just | I |
| About our young colt's neck | K |
| - | |
| Her feet beneath her petticoat | I |
| Like little mice stole in and out | I |
| As if they fear'd the light | I |
| But oh she dances such a way | E |
| No sun upon an Easter day | E |
| Is half so fine a sight | I |
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| Her cheeks so rare a white was on | O |
| No daisie makes comparison | P |
| Who sees them is undone | P |
| For streaks of red were mingled there | C |
| Such as are on a Cath'rine pear | C |
| The side that's next the Sun | P |
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| Her lips were red and one was thin | A |
| Compared to that was next her chin | A |
| Some bee had stung it newly | N |
| But Dick her eyes so guard her face | M |
| I durst no more upon them gaze | M |
| Than on a Sun in July | Q |
| - | |
| Her mouth so small when she does speak | K |
| Thou'dst swear her teeth her words did break | K |
| That they might passage get | I |
| But she so handled still the matter | R |
| They came as good as ours or better | R |
| And are not spent a whit | I |
| - | |
| Passion oh me how I run on | O |
| There's that that would be thought upon | O |
| I trow besides the bride | I |
| The business of the kitchen's great | I |
| For it is fit that men should eat | I |
| Nor was it there denied | I |
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| Just in the nick the Cook knock'd thrice | M |
| And all the waiters in a trice | M |
| His summons did obey | E |
| Each serving man with dish in hand | I |
| March'd boldly up like our train'd band | I |
| Presented and away | E |
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| When all the meat was on the table | S |
| What man of knife or teeth was able | S |
| To stay to be entreated | I |
| And this the very reason was | M |
| Before the parson could say grace | M |
| The company was seated | I |
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| Now hats fly off and youths carouse | M |
| Healths first go round and then the house | M |
| The bride's came thick and thick | K |
| And when 'twas named another's health | T |
| Perhaps he made it hers by stealth | T |
| And who could help it Dick | K |
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| O' th' sudden up they rise and dance | M |
| Then sit again and sigh and glance | M |
| Then dance again and kiss | M |
| Thus sev'ral ways the time did pass | M |
| Till ev'ry woman wish'd her place | M |
| And ev'ry man wish'd his | M |
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| By this time all were stol'n aside | I |
| To counsel and undress the bride | I |
| But that he must not know | U |
| But yet 'twas thought he guest her mind | I |
| And did not mean to stay behind | I |
| Above an hour or so | U |
Sir John Suckling
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