The Barking Weasel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC BDBEFF GHGHII JKJKCC LHLHFF| You say John Irish Mr Taylor hath | A |
| A painted beard Quite likely that is true | B |
| And sure 'tis natural you spend your wrath | A |
| On what has been least merciful to you | B |
| By Taylor's chin if I am not mistaken | C |
| You like a rat have recently been shaken | C |
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| To wear a beard of artificial hue | B |
| May be or this or that I know not what | D |
| But faith 'tis better to be black and blue | B |
| In beard from dallying with brush and pot | E |
| Than to be so in body from the beating | F |
| That hardy rogues get when detected cheating | F |
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| You're whacked about the mazzard rather more | G |
| Of late than any other man in town | H |
| Certes your vulnerable back is sore | G |
| And tender too your corrigible crown | H |
| In truth your whole periphery discloses | I |
| More vivid colors than a bed of posies | I |
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| You call it glory Put your tongue in sheath | J |
| Scars got in battle even if on the breast | K |
| May be a shameful record if beneath | J |
| A robber heart a lawless strife attest | K |
| John Sullivan had wounds and Paddy Ryan | C |
| Nay as to that even Masten has and Bryan | C |
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| 'Tis willingly conceded you've a knack | L |
| At holding the attention of the town | H |
| The worse for you when you have on your back | L |
| What did not grow there prithee put it down | H |
| For pride kills thrift and you lack board and lodging | F |
| Even while the brickbats of renown you're dodging | F |
Ambrose Bierce
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