Moderation In Diet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IAIA JKJK LMLM NONO PQPQ RSRS TUTU| The drunkard's sin excess in wine | A |
| Which reason drowns and health destroys | B |
| As yet no failing is of thine | A |
| Dear Jim strong drink's not given to boys | B |
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| You from the cool fresh stream allay | C |
| Those thirsts which sultry suns excite | D |
| When choked with dust or hot with play | C |
| A cup of water yields delight | D |
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| And reverence still that temperate cup | E |
| And cherish long the blameless taste | F |
| To learn the faults of men grown up | E |
| Dear Jim be wise and do not haste | F |
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| They'll come too soon But there's a vice | G |
| That shares the world's contempt no less | H |
| To be in eating over nice | G |
| Or to court surfeits by excess | H |
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| The first as finical avoid | I |
| The last is proper to a swine | A |
| By temperance meat is best enjoyed | I |
| Think of this maxim when you dine | A |
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| Prefer with plain food to be fed | J |
| Rather than what are dainties styled | K |
| A sweet tooth in an infant's head | J |
| Is pardoned not in a grown child | K |
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| If parent aunt or liberal friend | L |
| With splendid shilling line your purse | M |
| Do not the same on sweetmeats spend | L |
| Nor appetite with pampering nurse | M |
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| Go buy a book a dainty eaten | N |
| Is vanished and no sweets remain | O |
| They who their minds with knowledge sweeten | N |
| The savour long as life retain | O |
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| Purchase some toy a horse of wood | P |
| A pasteboard ship their structure scan | Q |
| Their mimic uses understood | P |
| The school boy make a kind of man | Q |
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| Go see some show pictures or prints | R |
| Or beasts far brought from Indian land | S |
| Those foreign sights oft furnish hints | R |
| That may the youthful mind expand | S |
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| And something of your store impart | T |
| To feed the poor and hungry soul | U |
| What buys for you the needless tart | T |
| May purchase him a needful roll | U |
Charles Lamb
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