A Recipe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABCDCCDCCBB EFBEFBGCHICHBB| Take a pair of sparkling eyes | A |
| Hidden ever and anon | B |
| In a merciful eclipse | C |
| Do not heed their mild surprise | A |
| Having passed the Rubicon | B |
| Take a pair of rosy lips | C |
| Take a figure trimly planned | D |
| Such as admiration whets | C |
| Be particular in this | C |
| Take a tender little hand | D |
| Fringed with dainty fingerettes | C |
| Press it in parenthesis | C |
| Take all these you lucky man | B |
| Take and keep them if you can | B |
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| Take a pretty little cot | E |
| Quite a miniature affair | F |
| Hung about with trellised vine | B |
| Furnish it upon the spot | E |
| With the treasures rich and rare | F |
| I've endeavoured to define | B |
| Live to love and love to live | G |
| You will ripen at your ease | C |
| Growing on the sunny side | H |
| Fate has nothing more to give | I |
| You're a dainty man to please | C |
| If you are not satisfied | H |
| Take my counsel happy man | B |
| Act upon it if you can | B |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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