Jack And Joan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE FFGHIIJJ KKLLMMLN OOBBPPQQ| Jack and Joan they think no ill | A |
| But loving live and merry still | A |
| Do their week days' work and pray | B |
| Devoutly on the holy day | B |
| Skip and trip it on the green | C |
| And help to choose the Summer Queen | C |
| Lash out at a country feast | D |
| Their silver penny with the best | E |
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| Well can they judge of nappy ale | F |
| And tell at large a winter tale | F |
| Climb up to the apple loft | G |
| And turn the crabs till they be soft | H |
| Tib is all the father's joy | I |
| And little Tom the mother's boy | I |
| All their pleasure is Content | J |
| And care to pay their yearly rent | J |
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| Joan can call by name her cows | K |
| And deck her window with green boughs | K |
| She can wreaths and tutties make | L |
| And trim with plums a bridal cake | L |
| Jack knows what brings gain or loss | M |
| And his long flail can stoutly toss | M |
| Makes the hedge which others break | L |
| And ever thinks what he doth speak | N |
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| Now you courtly dames and knights | O |
| That study only strange delights | O |
| Though you scorn the homespun grey | B |
| And revel in your rich array | B |
| Though your tongues dissemble deep | P |
| And can your heads from danger keep | P |
| Yet for all your pomp and train | Q |
| Securer lives the silly swain | Q |
Thomas Campion
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