Villon's Straight Tip To All Cross Coves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCCDCDCCCCCDCDCCC CCECDF CDCD| Tout aux tavernes et aux filles | A |
| Suppose you screeve or go cheap jack | B |
| Or fake the broads or fig a nag | C |
| Or thimble rig or knap a yack | B |
| Or pitch a snide or smash a rag | C |
| Suppose you duff or nose and lag | C |
| Or get the straight and land your pot | D |
| How do you melt the multy swag | C |
| Booze and the blowens cop the lot | D |
| Fiddle or fence or mace or mack | C |
| Or moskeneer or flash the drag | C |
| Dead lurk a crib or do a crack | C |
| Pad with a slang or chuck a fag | C |
| Bonnet or tout or mump and gag | C |
| Rattle the tats or mark the spot | D |
| You can not bank a single stag | C |
| Booze and the blowens cop the lot | D |
| Suppose you try a different tack | C |
| And on the square you flash your flag | C |
| At penny a lining make your whack | C |
| Or with the mummers mug and gag | C |
| For nix for nix the dibbs you bag | C |
| At any graft no matter what | E |
| Your merry goblins soon stravag | C |
| Booze and the blowens cop the lot | D |
| THE MORAL | F |
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| It's up the spout and Charley Wag | C |
| With wipes and tickers and what not | D |
| Until the squeezer nips your scrag | C |
| Booze and the blowens cop the lot | D |
William Ernest Henley
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