Nursery Rhyme. Lxxxix. Proverbs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGGHHII| One version of the following song which I believe to be the genuine one is written on the last leaf of MS Harl between the lines of a fragment of an old charter originally used for binding the book in a hand of the end of the seventeenth century but unfortunately it is scarcely adapted for the ears polite of modern days | A |
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| A man of words and not of deeds | B |
| Is like a garden full of weeds | B |
| And when the weeds begin to grow | C |
| It's like a garden full of snow | C |
| And when the snow begins to fall | D |
| It's like a bird upon the wall | D |
| And when the bird away does fly | E |
| It's like an eagle in the sky | E |
| And when the sky begins to roar | F |
| It's like a lion at the door | F |
| And when the door begins to crack | G |
| It's like a stick across your back | G |
| And when your back begins to smart | H |
| It's like a penknife in your heart | H |
| And when your heart begins to bleed | I |
| You're dead and dead and dead indeed | I |
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