John And Freddy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JEJE JKJK JBJB LKLK MBMB NENE OBOB PMQM RBRB JBJB| JOHN courted lovely MARY ANN | A |
| So likewise did his brother FREDDY | B |
| FRED was a very soft young man | A |
| While JOHN though quick was most unsteady | B |
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| FRED was a graceful kind of youth | C |
| But JOHN was very much the strongest | D |
| Oh dance away said she in truth | C |
| I'll marry him who dances longest | D |
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| JOHN tries the maiden's taste to strike | E |
| With gay grotesque outrageous dresses | F |
| And dances comically like | E |
| CLODOCHE AND Co at the Princess's | G |
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| But FREDDY tries another style | H |
| He knows some graceful steps and does 'em | I |
| A breathing Poem Woman's smile | H |
| A man all poesy and buzzem | I |
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| Now FREDDY'S operatic PAS | J |
| Now JOHNNY'S hornpipe seems entrapping | E |
| Now FREDDY'S graceful ENTRECHATS | J |
| Now JOHNNY'S skilful cellar flapping | E |
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| For many hours for many days | J |
| For many weeks performed each brother | K |
| For each was active in his ways | J |
| And neither would give in to t'other | K |
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| After a month of this they say | J |
| The maid was getting bored and moody | B |
| A wandering curate passed that way | J |
| And talked a lot of goody goody | B |
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| Oh my said he with solemn frown | L |
| I tremble for each dancing FRATER | K |
| Like unregenerated clown | L |
| And harlequin at some the ayter | K |
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| He showed that men in dancing do | M |
| Both impiously and absurdly | B |
| And proved his proposition true | M |
| With Firstly Secondly and Thirdly | B |
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| For months both JOHN and FREDDY danced | N |
| The curate's protests little heeding | E |
| For months the curate's words enhanced | N |
| The sinfulness of their proceeding | E |
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| At length they bowed to Nature's rule | O |
| Their steps grew feeble and unsteady | B |
| Till FREDDY fainted on a stool | O |
| And JOHNNY on the top of FREDDY | B |
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| Decide quoth they let him be named | P |
| Who henceforth as his wife may rank you | M |
| I've changed my views the maiden said | Q |
| I only marry curates thank you | M |
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| Says FREDDY Here is goings on | R |
| To bust myself with rage I'm ready | B |
| I'll be a curate whispers JOHN | R |
| And I exclaimed poetic FREDDY | B |
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| But while they read for it these chaps | J |
| The curate booked the maiden bonny | B |
| And when she's buried him perhaps | J |
| She'll marry FREDERICK or JOHNNY | B |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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