To My Bride (whoever She May Be) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHIJ KEKELL MBMBNN OPOQEE BRBRBB| Oh little maid I do not know your name | A |
| Or who you are so as a safe precaution | B |
| I'll add Oh buxom widow married dame | A |
| As one of these must be your present portion | B |
| Listen while I unveil prophetic lore for you | C |
| And sing the fate that Fortune has in store for you | C |
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| You'll marry soon within a year or twain | D |
| A bachelor of CIRCA two and thirty | E |
| Tall gentlemanly but extremely plain | D |
| And when you're intimate you'll call him BERTIE | E |
| Neat dresses well his temper has been classified | F |
| As hasty but he's very quickly pacified | F |
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| You'll find him working mildly at the Bar | G |
| After a touch at two or three professions | H |
| From easy affluence extremely far | G |
| A brief or two on Circuit soup at Sessions | H |
| A pound or two from whist and backing horses | I |
| And say three hundred from his own resources | J |
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| Quiet in harness free from serious vice | K |
| His faults are not particularly shady | E |
| You'll never find him SHY for once or twice | K |
| Already he's been driven by a lady | E |
| Who parts with him perhaps a poor excuse for him | L |
| Because she hasn't any further use for him | L |
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| Oh bride of mine tall dumpy dark or fair | M |
| Oh widow wife maybe or blushing maiden | B |
| I've told YOUR fortune solved the gravest care | M |
| With which your mind has hitherto been laden | B |
| I've prophesied correctly never doubt it | N |
| Now tell me mine and please be quick about it | N |
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| You only you can tell me an' you will | O |
| To whom I'm destined shortly to be mated | P |
| Will she run up a heavy MODISTE'S bill | O |
| If so I want to hear her income stated | Q |
| This is a point which interests me greatly | E |
| To quote the bard Oh have I seen her lately | E |
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| Say must I wait till husband number one | B |
| Is comfortably stowed away at Woking | R |
| How is her hair most usually done | B |
| And tell me please will she object to smoking | R |
| The colour of her eyes too you may mention | B |
| Come Sibyl prophesy I'm all attention | B |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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