Twenty Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HEHE IEIE JKJK LMNM| Twenty days are barely gone | A |
| I was merry all the day | B |
| Folly was my butt of scorn | C |
| Now the fool myself I play | B |
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| Wit and learning ruled my head | D |
| Logic and economy | E |
| All the books I ever read | D |
| Taught me only vanity | E |
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| Most of all it moved my mirth | F |
| Womankind the world should rule | G |
| Man the lord of all the Earth | F |
| He forsooth a woman's tool | G |
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| Cherry lip and glancing eye | H |
| What were rosy cheeks to me | E |
| Beauty's truth was but a lie | H |
| Witness tomes of history | E |
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| Twenty days had barely run | I |
| Twenty years they well might be | E |
| All my wisdom was undone | I |
| Reason bade good night to me | E |
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| Her hair was of the red red gold | J |
| Her blue eyes looked me through and through | K |
| She was twenty three years old | J |
| I was twenty years and two | K |
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| Fortune fame I freely give | L |
| Honour's self if so she please | M |
| Sweetly in her smile to live | N |
| Other twenty days like these | M |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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