The Leather Bottel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDEF GGHHIIDDFEJKEF LLMNOOCBLLPQEF RRSSTUVVIIIIWWEF LLIIIIDDXYEF IIIIBBZAEF| Now God alone that made all things | A |
| Heaven and earth and all that's in | B |
| The ships that in the seas do swim | C |
| To keep out foes from coming in | B |
| Then every one does what he can | D |
| All for the good and use of man | D |
| And I wish in Heaven his soul may dwell | E |
| That first devis'd the leather bottel | F |
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| Now what d'ye say to cans of wood | G |
| Faith they're naught they cannot be good | G |
| For when a man for beer doth send | H |
| To have them fill'd he doth intend | H |
| The bearer stumbles by the way | I |
| And on the ground the beer doth lay | I |
| Then doth the man begin to ban | D |
| And swears 'twas long o' the wooden can | D |
| But had it been in a leather bottel | F |
| It had not been so for all had been well | E |
| And safe therein it would remain | J |
| Until the man got up again | K |
| And I wish in Heaven his soul may dwell | E |
| That first devis'd the leather bottel | F |
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| What do you say to glasses fine | L |
| Faith they shall have no praise of mine | L |
| For when a man's at table set | M |
| And by him several sorts of meat | N |
| The one loves flesh the other fish | O |
| Then with your hand remove a dish | O |
| Touch but the glass upon the brim | C |
| The glass is broke and naught left in | B |
| The table cloth though ne'er so fine | L |
| Is soil'd with beer or ale or wine | L |
| And doubtless for so small abuse | P |
| A servant may his service lose | Q |
| But I wish in Heaven his soul may dwell | E |
| That first devis'd the leather bottel | F |
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| What say you to the handled pot | R |
| No praise of mine shall be its lot | R |
| For when a man and wife's at strife | S |
| As many have been in their life | S |
| They lay their hands upon it both | T |
| And break the same although they're loth | U |
| But woe to them shall bear the guilt | V |
| Between them both the liquor's spilt | V |
| For which they shall answer another day | I |
| Casting so vainly their liquor away | I |
| But if it had been leather bottel'd | I |
| One might have tugg'd the other have held | I |
| Both might have tugg'd till their hearts should break | W |
| No harm the leather bottel could take | W |
| Then I wish in Heaven his soul may dwell | E |
| That first devis'd the leather bottel | F |
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| What say you to flagons of silver fine | L |
| Why faith they shall have no praise of mine | L |
| For when a lord for sack doth send | I |
| To have them fill'd he doth intend | I |
| The man with the flagon runs away | I |
| And never is seen after that day | I |
| The lord then begins to swear and ban | D |
| For having lost both flagon and man | D |
| But had it been either by page or groom | X |
| With a leather bottel it had come home | Y |
| And I wish in Heaven his soul may dwell | E |
| That first devis'd the leather bottel | F |
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| And when this bottel is grown old | I |
| And that it will no longer hold | I |
| Out o' the side you may cut a clout | I |
| To mend your shoes when they're worn out | I |
| Then hang the rest up on a pin | B |
| 'Twill serve to put odd trifles in | B |
| As rings and awls and candles' ends | Z |
| For young beginners have such things | A |
| And I wish in Heaven his soul may dwell | E |
| That first devis'd the leather bottel | F |
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