Stans Puer Ad Mensam Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HCHC IJIJ KLKM NONO PQPQ RSRS TBTB| Attend my words my gentle knave | A |
| And you shall learn from me | B |
| How boys at dinner may behave | A |
| With due propriety | B |
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| Guard well your hands two things have been | C |
| Unfitly used by some | D |
| The trencher for a tambourine | E |
| The table for a drum | D |
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| We could not lead a pleasant life | F |
| And 'twould be finished soon | G |
| If peas were eaten with the knife | F |
| And gravy with the spoon | G |
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| Eat slowly only men in rags | H |
| And gluttons old in sin | C |
| Mistake themselves for carpet bags | H |
| And tumble victuals in | C |
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| The privy pinch the whispered tease | I |
| The wild unseemly yell | J |
| When children do such things as these | I |
| We say It is not well | J |
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| Endure your mother's timely stare | K |
| Your father's righteous ire | L |
| And do not wriggle on your chair | K |
| Like flannel in the fire | M |
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| Be silent you may chatter loud | N |
| When you are fully grown | O |
| Surrounded by a silent crowd | N |
| Of children of your own | O |
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| If you should suddenly feel bored | P |
| And much inclined to yawning | Q |
| Your little hand will best afford | P |
| A modest useful awning | Q |
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| Think highly of the Cat and yet | R |
| You need not therefore think | S |
| That portly strangers like your pet | R |
| To share their meat and drink | S |
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| The end of dinner comes ere long | T |
| When once more full and free | B |
| You cheerfully may bide the gong | T |
| That calls you to your tea | B |
Sir Walter Raleigh
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