The Night Before Larry Was Stretched Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDEF GHIJKLKMN KOKOPQPOR KMKMSTSTS UMUMVKVKW XKXKYKYKZ KA2KOB2KB2KC2 D2ED2EE2HE2JF2 CKG2KFEFEH2| The night before Larry was stretched | A |
| The boys they all paid him a visit | B |
| A bait in their sacks too they fetched | A |
| They sweated their duds till they riz it | C |
| For Larry was ever the lad | D |
| When a boy was condemned to the squeezer | E |
| Would fence all the duds that he had | D |
| To help a poor friend to a sneezer | E |
| And warm his gob 'fore he died | F |
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| The boys they came crowding in fast | G |
| They drew all their stools round about him | H |
| Six glims round his trap case were placed | I |
| He couldn't be well waked without 'em | J |
| When one of us asked could he die | K |
| Without having truly repented | L |
| Says Larry That's all in my eye | K |
| And first by the clargy invented | M |
| To get a fat bit for themselves | N |
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| I'm sorry dear Larry says I | K |
| To see you in this situation | O |
| And blister my limbs if I lie | K |
| I'd as lieve it had been my own station | O |
| Ochone it's all all over says he | P |
| For the neck cloth I'll be forced to put on | Q |
| And by this time to morrow you'll see | P |
| Your poor Larry as dead as a mutton | O |
| Because why his courage was good | R |
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| And I'll be cut up like a pie | K |
| And my nob from my body be parted | M |
| You're in the wrong box then says I | K |
| For blast me if they're so hard hearted | M |
| A chalk on the back of your neck | S |
| Is all that Jack Ketch dares to give you | T |
| Then mind not such trifles a feck | S |
| For why should the likes of them grieve you | T |
| And now boys come tip us the deck | S |
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| The cards being called for they played | U |
| Till Larry found one of them cheated | M |
| A dart at his napper he made | U |
| The boy being easily heated | M |
| Oh by the hokey you thief | V |
| I'll scuttle your nob with my daddle | K |
| You cheat me because I'm in grief | V |
| But soon I'll demolish your noddle | K |
| And leave you your claret to drink | W |
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| Then the clergy came in with his book | X |
| He spoke him so smooth and so civil | K |
| Larry tipped him a Kilmainham look | X |
| And pitched his big wig to the devil | K |
| Then sighing he threw back his head | Y |
| To get a sweet drop of the bottle | K |
| And pitiful sighing he said | Y |
| Oh the hemp will be soon round my throttle | K |
| And choke my poor windpipe to death | Z |
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| Through sure it's the best way to die | K |
| Oh the devil a better a living | A2 |
| For sure when the gallows is high | K |
| Your journey is shorter to heaven | O |
| But what harasses Larry the most | B2 |
| And makes his poor soul melancholy | K |
| Is to think on the time when his ghost | B2 |
| Will come in a sheet to sweet Molly | K |
| Oh sure it will kill her alive | C2 |
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| So moving these last words he spoke | D2 |
| We all vented our tears in a shower | E |
| For my part I thought my heart broke | D2 |
| To see him cut down like a flower | E |
| On his travels we watched him next day | E2 |
| Oh the throttler I thought I could kill him | H |
| But Larry not one word did say | E2 |
| Nor changed till he came to King William | J |
| Then musha his color grew white | F2 |
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| When he came to the nubbling chit | C |
| He was tucked up so neat and so pretty | K |
| The rumbler jogged off from his feet | G2 |
| And he died with his feet to the city | K |
| He kicked too but that was all pride | F |
| But soon you might see 'twas all over | E |
| Soon after the noose was untied | F |
| And at darky we waked him in clover | E |
| And sent him to take a ground sweat | H2 |
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