Old Fashioned Fun Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CACA DEDE FAFA G| When that old joke was new | A |
| It was not hard to joke | B |
| And puns we now pooh pooh | A |
| Great laughter would provoke | B |
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| True wit was seldom heard | C |
| And humor shown by few | A |
| When reign'd King George the Third | C |
| And that old joke was new | A |
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| It passed indeed for wit | D |
| Did this achievement rare | E |
| When down your friend would sit | D |
| To steal away his chair | E |
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| You brought him to the floor | F |
| You bruised him black and blue | A |
| And this would cause a roar | F |
| When your old joke was new | A |
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| W M Thackeray | G |
William Makepeace Thackeray
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