How It's Done Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDEDFGGFHHHHAIHH AI EEFDEFJJDJJDHHDDKKLL KK LLMNNMHHEOODPPFFQQHH QQ| Bold faced ranger | A |
| Perfect stranger | A |
| Meets two well behaved young ladies | B |
| He's attractive | C |
| Young and active | C |
| Each a little bit afraid is | D |
| Youth advances | E |
| At his glances | D |
| To their danger they awaken | F |
| They repel him | G |
| As they tell him | G |
| He is very much mistaken | F |
| Though they speak to him politely | H |
| Please observe they're sneering slightly | H |
| Just to show he's acting vainly | H |
| This is Virtue saying plainly | H |
| Go away young bachelor | A |
| We are not what you take us for | I |
| When addressed impertinently | H |
| English ladies answer gently | H |
| Go away young bachelor | A |
| We are not what you take us for | I |
| - | |
| As he gazes | E |
| Hat he raises | E |
| Enters into conversation | F |
| Makes excuses | D |
| This produces | E |
| Interesting agitation | F |
| He with daring | J |
| Undespairing | J |
| Gives his card his rank discloses | D |
| Little heeding | J |
| This proceeding | J |
| They turn up their little noses | D |
| Pray observe this lesson vital | H |
| When a man of rank and title | H |
| His position first discloses | D |
| Always cock your little noses | D |
| When at home let all the class | K |
| Try this in the looking glass | K |
| English girls of well bred notions | L |
| Shun all unrehearsed emotions | L |
| English girls of highest class | K |
| Practise them before the glass | K |
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| His intentions | L |
| Then he mentions | L |
| Something definite to go on | M |
| Makes recitals | N |
| Of his titles | N |
| Hints at settlements and so on | M |
| Smiling sweetly | H |
| They discreetly | H |
| Ask for further evidences | E |
| Thus invited | O |
| He delighted | O |
| Gives the usual references | D |
| This is business Each is fluttered | P |
| When the offer's fairly uttered | P |
| Which of them has his affection | F |
| He declines to make selection | F |
| Do they quarrel for his dross | Q |
| Not a bit of it they toss | Q |
| Please observe this cogent moral | H |
| English ladies never quarrel | H |
| When a doubt they come across | Q |
| English ladies always toss | Q |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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