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 IIUIIUI 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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