The Way Of Wooing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDDEFFE GGHIIHJJEFFE KKHLLHMMEFFE NNOPPOAAEFFE| A maiden sat at her window wide | A |
| Pretty enough for a Prince's bride | A |
| Yet nobody came to claim her | B |
| She sat like a beautiful picture there | C |
| With pretty bluebells and roses fair | C |
| And jasmine leaves to frame her | B |
| And why she sat there nobody knows | D |
| But this she sang as she plucked a rose | D |
| The leaves around her strewing | E |
| I've time to lose and power to choose | F |
| 'T is not so much the gallant who woos | F |
| But the gallant's WAY of wooing | E |
| - | |
| A lover came riding by awhile | G |
| A wealthy lover was he whose smile | G |
| Some maids would value greatly | H |
| A formal lover who bowed and bent | I |
| With many a high flown compliment | I |
| And cold demeanour stately | H |
| You've still said she to her suitor stern | J |
| The 'prentice work of your craft to learn | J |
| If thus you come a cooing | E |
| I've time to lose and power to choose | F |
| 'T is not so much the gallant who woos | F |
| As the gallant's WAY of wooing | E |
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| A second lover came ambling by | K |
| A timid lad with a frightened eye | K |
| And a colour mantling highly | H |
| He muttered the errand on which he'd come | L |
| Then only chuckled and bit his thumb | L |
| And simpered simpered shyly | H |
| No said the maiden go your way | M |
| You dare but think what a man would say | M |
| Yet dare to come a suing | E |
| I've time to lose and power to choose | F |
| 'T is not so much the gallant who woos | F |
| As the gallant's WAY of wooing | E |
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| A third rode up at a startling pace | N |
| A suitor poor with a homely face | N |
| No doubts appeared to bind him | O |
| He kissed her lips and he pressed her waist | P |
| And off he rode with the maiden placed | P |
| On a pillion safe behind him | O |
| And she heard the suitor bold confide | A |
| This golden hint to the priest who tied | A |
| The knot there's no undoing | E |
| With pretty young maidens who can choose | F |
| 'T is not so much the gallant who woos | F |
| As the gallant's WAY of wooing | E |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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