When I First Put This Uniform On Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBDDEEDAA AEFFEGGEEGAA| When I first put this uniform on | A |
| I said as I looked in the glass | B |
| It's one to a million | C |
| That any civilian | C |
| My figure and form will surpass | B |
| Gold lace has a charm for the fair | D |
| And I've plenty of that and to spare | D |
| While a lover's professions | E |
| When uttered in Hessians | E |
| Are eloquent everywhere | D |
| A fact that I counted upon | A |
| When I first put this uniform on | A |
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| I said when I first put it on | A |
| It is plain to the veriest dunce | E |
| That every beauty | F |
| Will feel it her duty | F |
| To yield to its glamour at once | E |
| They will see that I'm freely gold laced | G |
| In a uniform handsome and chaste | G |
| But the peripatetics | E |
| Of long haired aesthetics | E |
| Are very much more to their taste | G |
| Which I never counted upon | A |
| When I first put this uniform on | A |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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