Fareast B4L6 Love and Learn: Two Poems
Class _________ Number________ Name___________
Appreciate a Poem:
When I Was One-and-Twenty
Form
1.stanza
2
2. rhyme scheme
abcbcdad, aefeagag
Meaning
3. parallelism: (identify
parallelism in the poem)
3.1 “Paid with sighs a plenty” paralles “sold for endless
rue.”
3.2 “But I was one-and twenty/ No use to talk to me”
paralles “And I am two-and-twenty,/ And oh, ‘tis
true, ‘tis true.”
3.3 The first stanza parallels the second stanza.
4. metaphor:
4.1 Crowns, pounds, guineas, pearls, rubies wordly
wealth
4.2 Heart (out of the bosom), fancy  love
5. imagery
Questions for Discussion
When I Was One-and-Twenty
6. Who do you think is the “wise man” in the poem referred to? What he might have
experienced?
7. Why does the wise man say “Give crowns and pounds and guineas” and “Give
pearls away and rubies?” Doesn’t that sound redundant?
8. Why is it important to “keep your fancy free?”
9. Why does the speaker say it was “no use to talk to me?”
10. What do you think the age of twenty-one refers to? And twenty-two?
11.What do you think happened to the author at the end of the poem?
Fareast B4L6 Love and Learn: Two Poems
Class _________ Number________ Name___________
Down by the Salley Gardens
Form
1.stanza
2
2. rhyme scheme
aabb, ccdd
Meaning
3. Parallelism:
3.1“She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on
the tree” parallels “She bid me take lofe easy, as the
grass grows on the weirs.”
3.2. “But I being young and foolish” parallels “but I
was young and foolish.”
3.3 The first stanza parallels the second stanza.
4. Word Order
(Rearrange the each of
the following lines in
Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet.
 My love and I met down by the salley gardens.
But I being young and foolish, with her would not
correct word order.)
agree.
 But, being young and foolish, I would not agree with
her.
In a field by the river my love and I did stand,
 My love and I stood in a field by the river.
5. metaphor
6. imagery
Questions for Discussion
7. Why does the writer use the color “snow-white” to describe his lover?
8. Where do the writer and his love often have a date?
9. Besides lovers, what is probably the relationship between the writer and “She”?
10. What were the writer’s attitude toward love, when he was young?
11. What are “her” attitudes toward love?
12. Why is the writer full of tears? What happened to him?
Fareast B4L6 Love and Learn: Two Poems
Class _________ Number________ Name___________
Appreciate a Poem:
When I Was One-and-Twenty
Form
1.stanza
2. rhyme scheme
Meaning
3. parallelism: (identify
parallelism in the poem)
3.1“Paid with sighs a plenty” paralles “
.”
3.2“_________________________________________
” paralles
“
________________________________________”
3.3The first stanza parallels
.
4. metaphor:
4.1 _____________________________
4.2 ____________________________ 
5. imagery
Questions for Discussion
When I Was One-and-Twenty
6. Who do you think is the “wise man” in the poem referred to? What he might have
experienced?
7. Why does the wise man say “Give crowns and pounds and guineas” and “Give
pearls away and rubies?” Doesn’t that sound redundant?
8. Why is it important to “keep your fancy free?”
9. Why does the speaker say it was “no use to talk to me?”
10. What do you think the age of twenty-one refers to? And twenty-two?
11.What do you think happened to the author at the end of the poem?
Fareast B4L6 Love and Learn: Two Poems
Class _________ Number________ Name___________
Down by the Salley Gardens
Form
1.stanza
2
2. rhyme scheme
aabb, ccdd
Meaning
3. Parallelism:
3.1“She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on
the tree” parallels “
_________________________________________.”
3.2. “_____________________________________”
parallels “_______________________________.”
3.3 ________________________________ parallels
______________________________.
4. Word Order
(Rearrange the each of
4.1 Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet.

the following lines in
correct word order.)
__________________________________________
4.2 But I being young and foolish, with her would not
agree.
 __________________________________________
_____________________________________________
4.3 In a field by the river my love and I did stand,
 __________________________________________
_____________________________________________
5. metaphor
6. imagery
Questions for Discussion
7. Why does the writer use the color “snow-white” to describe his lover?
8. Where do the writer and his love often have a date?
9. Besides lovers, what is probably the relationship between the writer and “She”?
10. What were the writer’s attitude toward love, when he was young?
11. What are “her” attitudes toward love?
12. Why is the writer full of tears? What happened to him?