The Cantab Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFFGHIIJKLLMM| With two spurs or one and no great matter which | A |
| Boots bought or boots borrow'd a whip or a switch | A |
| Five shillings or less for the hire of his beast | B |
| Paid part into hand you must wait for the rest | C |
| Thus equipt Academicus climbs up his horse | D |
| And out they both sally for better or worse | E |
| His heart void of fear and as light as a feather | F |
| And in violent haste to go not knowing whither | F |
| Through the fields and the towns see he scampers along | G |
| And is look d at and laugh'd at by old and by young | H |
| Til at length overspent and his sides smear'd with blood | I |
| Down tumbles his horse man and all in the mud | I |
| In a wagon or chaise shall he finish his route | J |
| Oh scandalous fate he must do it on foot | K |
| Young gentlemen hear I am older than you | L |
| The advice that I give I have proved to be true | L |
| Wherever your journey may be never doubt it | M |
| The faster you ride you re the longer about it | M |
William Cowper
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