Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCBBDDEFEGHGIJJJ H KKLLMMBBNOAAEDODOPPP N NOONQQLRSSTTEUKUKUUU KEUK| First you're born and I'll be bound you | A |
| Find a dozen strangers round you | A |
| Hallo cries the new born baby | B |
| Where's my parents which may they be | B |
| Awkward silence no reply | C |
| Puzzled baby wonders why | C |
| Father rises bows politely | B |
| Mother smiles but not too brightly | B |
| Doctor mumbles like a dumb thing | D |
| Nurse is busy mixing something | D |
| Every symptom tends to show | E |
| You're decidedly DE TROP | F |
| Ho ho ho ho ho he ho ho | E |
| Time's teetotum | G |
| If you spin it | H |
| Give its quotum | G |
| Once a minute | I |
| I'll go bail | J |
| You hit the nail | J |
| And if you fail | J |
| The deuce is in it | H |
| - | |
| You grow up and you discover | K |
| What it is to be a lover | K |
| Some young lady is selected | L |
| Poor perhaps but well connected | L |
| Whom you hail for Love is blind | M |
| As the Queen of Fairy kind | M |
| Though she's plain perhaps unsightly | B |
| Makes her face up laces tightly | B |
| In her form your fancy traces | N |
| All the gifts of all the graces | O |
| Rivals none the maiden woo | A |
| So you take her and she takes you | A |
| Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho | E |
| Joke beginning | D |
| Never ceases | O |
| Till your inning | D |
| Time releases | O |
| On your way | P |
| You blindly stray | P |
| And day by day | P |
| The joke increases | N |
| - | |
| Ten years later Time progresses | N |
| Sours your temper thins your tresses | O |
| Fancy then her chain relaxes | O |
| Rates are facts and so are taxes | N |
| Fairy Queen's no longer young | Q |
| Fairy Queen has such a tongue | Q |
| Twins have probably intruded | L |
| Quite unbidden just as you did | R |
| They're a source of care and trouble | S |
| Just as you were only double | S |
| Comes at last the final stroke | T |
| Time has had his little joke | T |
| Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho | E |
| Daily driven | U |
| Wife as drover | K |
| Ill you've thriven | U |
| Ne'er in clover | K |
| Lastly when | U |
| Threescore and ten | U |
| And not till then | U |
| The joke is over | K |
| Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho | E |
| Then and then | U |
| The joke is over | K |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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