I'm Not A Single Man."[1] - Lines Written In A Young Lady's Album Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JEKE LMNM OEPE QRSR TEUE MVWV XEJE YMZM A2EB2E| A pretty task Miss S to ask | A |
| A Benedictine pen | B |
| That cannot quite at freedom write | C |
| Like those of other men | B |
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| No lover's plaint my muse must paint | D |
| To fill this page's span | E |
| But be correct and recollect | F |
| I'm not a single man | E |
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| Pray only think for pen and ink | G |
| How hard to get along | H |
| That may not turn on words that burn | I |
| Or Love the life of song | H |
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| Nine Muses if I chooses I | J |
| May woo all in a clan | E |
| But one Miss S I daren't address | K |
| I'm not a single man | E |
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| Scribblers unwed with little head | L |
| May eke it out with heart | M |
| And in their lays it often plays | N |
| A rare first fiddle part | M |
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| They make a kiss to rhyme with bliss | O |
| But if I so began | E |
| I have my fears about my ears | P |
| I'm not a single man | E |
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| Upon your cheek I may not speak | Q |
| Nor on your lip be warm | R |
| I must be wise about your eyes | S |
| And formal with your form | R |
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| Of all that sort of thing in short | T |
| On T H Bayly's plan | E |
| I must not twine a single line | U |
| I'm not a single man | E |
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| A watchman's part compels my heart | M |
| To keep you off its beat | V |
| And I might dare as soon to swear | W |
| At you as at your feet | V |
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| I can't expire in passion's fire | X |
| As other poets can | E |
| My life she's by won't let me die | J |
| I'm not a single man | E |
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| Shut out from love denied a dove | Y |
| Forbidden bow and dart | M |
| Without a groan to call my own | Z |
| With neither hand nor heart | M |
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| To Hymen vow'd and not allow'd | A2 |
| To flirt e'en with your fan | E |
| Here end as just a friend I must | B2 |
| I'm not a single man | E |
Thomas Hood
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