Nell Flaherty-s Drake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDCEC FGHGICJC KHLHMNOC IPQRSCTC UVWVXOYC ZA2B2A2C2CC2C D2E2PCF2CGCMY NAME it is Nell right candid I tell | A |
And I live near a dell I ne er will deny | B |
I had a large drake the truth for to spake | C |
My grandfather left me when going to die | B |
He was merry and sound and would weigh twenty pound | D |
The universe round would I rove for his sake | C |
Bad luck to the robber be he drunken or sober | E |
That murdered Nell Flaherty s beautiful drake | C |
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His neck it was green and rare to be seen | F |
He was fit for a queen of the highest degree | G |
His body so white it would you delight | H |
He was fat plump and heavy and brisk as a bee | G |
This dear little fellow his legs they were yellow | I |
He could fly like a swallow or swim like a hake | C |
But some wicked habbage to grease his white cabbage | J |
Has murdered Nell Flaherty s beautiful drake | C |
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May his pig never grunt may his cat never hunt | K |
That a ghost may him haunt in the dark of the night | H |
May his hens never lay may his horse never neigh | L |
May his goat fly away like an old paper kite | H |
May his duck never quack may his goose be turned black | M |
And pull down his stack with her long yellow beak | N |
May the scurvy and itch never part from the britch | O |
Of the wretch that murdered Nell Flaherty s drake | C |
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May his rooster ne er crow may his bellows not blow | I |
Nor potatoes to grow may he never have none | P |
May his cradle not rock may his chest have no lock | Q |
May his wife have no frock for to shade her backbone | R |
That the bugs and the fleas may this wicked wretch tease | S |
And a piercing north breeze make him tremble and shake | C |
May a four years old bug build a nest in the lug | T |
Of the monster that murdered Nell Flaherty s drake | C |
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May his pipe never smoke may his tea pot be broke | U |
And to add to the joke may his kettle not boil | V |
May he be poorly fed till the hour he is dead | W |
May he always be fed on lobscouse and fish oil | V |
May he swell with the gout till his grinders fall out | X |
May he roar howl and shout with a horrid toothache | O |
May his temple wear horns and his toes carry corns | Y |
The wretch that murdered Nell Flaherty s drake | C |
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May his dog yelp and howl with both hunger and cold | Z |
May his wife always scold till his brains go astray | A2 |
May the curse of each hag that ever carried a bag | B2 |
Light down on the wag till his head it turns gray | A2 |
May monkeys still bite him and mad dogs affright him | C2 |
And every one slight him asleep or awake | C |
May wasps ever gnaw him and jackdaws ever claw him | C2 |
The monster that murdered Nell Flaherty s drake | C |
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But the only good news I have to diffuse | D2 |
Is of Peter Hughes and Paddy McCade | E2 |
And crooked Ned Manson and big nosed Bob Hanson | P |
Each one had a grandson of my beautiful drake | C |
Oh my bird he has dozens of nephews and cousins | F2 |
And one I must have or my heart it will break | C |
To keep my mind easy or else I ll run crazy | G |
And so ends the song of my beautiful drake | C |
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