Villon's Straight Tip To All Cross Coves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCCDCD CCCCCDCD CCCCCECD FCDCDTout aux tavernes et aux filles | A |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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THE MORAL | F |
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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