The Age Of Wisdom Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CBCCB DBDDB EFEEF GHGGI JIJBI| Ho pretty page with the dimpled chin | A |
| That never has known the Barber's shear | B |
| All your wish is woman to win | A |
| This is the way that boys begin | A |
| Wait till you come to Forty Year | B |
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| Curly gold locks cover foolish brains | C |
| Billing and cooing is all your cheer | B |
| Sighing and singing of midnight strains | C |
| Under Bonnybell's windowpanes | C |
| Wait till you come to Forty Year | B |
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| Forty times over let Michaelmas pass | D |
| Grizzling hair the brain doth clear | B |
| Then you know a boy is an ass | D |
| Then you know the worth of a lass | D |
| Once you have come to Forty Year | B |
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| Pledge me round I bid ye declare | E |
| All good fellows whose beards are gray | F |
| Did not the fairest of the fair | E |
| Common grow and wearisome ere | E |
| Ever a month was passed away | F |
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| The reddest lips that ever have kissed | G |
| The brightest eyes that ever have shone | H |
| May pray and wisper and we not list | G |
| Or look away and never be missed | G |
| Ere yet ever a month is gone | I |
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| Gillian's dead God rest her bier | J |
| How I loved her twenty years syne | I |
| Marian's married but I sit here | J |
| Alive and merry at Forty Year | B |
| Dipping my nose in Gascon wine | I |
William Makepeace Thackeray
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