Nell Flaherty-s Drake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDCEC FGHGICJC KHLHMNOC IPQRSCTC UVWVXOYC ZA2B2A2C2CC2C D2E2PCF2CGC| MY 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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