All's Well That Ends Well Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGHDEIIEEEJ JDEKKLLEMMNNNDOO| A friend of mine was married to a scold | A |
| To me he came and all his troubles told | A |
| Said he She's like a woman raving mad | B |
| Alas my friend said I that's very bad | B |
| No not so bad said he for with her true | C |
| I had both house and land and money too | C |
| That was well said I | D |
| No not so well said he | E |
| For I and her own brother | F |
| Went to law with one another | F |
| I was cast the suit was lost | G |
| And every penny went to pay the cost | H |
| That was bad said I | D |
| No not so bad said he | E |
| For we agreed that he the house should keep | I |
| And give to me four score of Yorkshire sheep | I |
| All fat and fair and fine they were to be | E |
| Well then said I sure that was well for thee | E |
| No not so well said he | E |
| For when the sheep I got | J |
| They every one died of the rot | J |
| That was bad said I | D |
| No not so bad said he | E |
| For I had thought to scrape the fat | K |
| And keep it in an oaken vat | K |
| Then into tallow melt for winter store | L |
| Well then said I that's better than before | L |
| 'Twas not so well said he | E |
| For having got a clumsy fellow | M |
| To scrape the fat and melt the tallow | M |
| Into the melting fat the fire catches | N |
| And like brimstone matches | N |
| Burnt my house to ashes | N |
| That was bad said I | D |
| No not so bad said he for what is best | O |
| My scolding wife has gone among the rest | O |
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