The Cock And The Bull Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLDMNOPBQ BRSTBUBVBBBWBULBBDBB BOBXYZBZBA2B2C2BXLBD 2E2F2 BBBB BIG2BH2I2BXUJ2BXBBBB BY BK2BYBBBBB L2BJ2BC2RBB BM2BC2J2BBQL2LBZBBN2 YUBRI2J2N2BBO2BJ2I2B BBI2| You see this pebble stone It s a thing I bought | A |
| Of a bit of a chit of a boy i the mid o the day | B |
| I like to dock the smaller parts o speech | C |
| As we curtail the already cur tail d cur | D |
| You catch the paronomasia play po words | E |
| Did rather i the pre Landseerian days | F |
| Well to my muttons I purchased the concern | G |
| And clapt it i my poke having given for same | H |
| By way o chop swop barter or exchange | I |
| Chop was my snickering dandiprat s own term | J |
| One shilling and fourpence current coin o the realm | K |
| O n e one and f o u r four | L |
| Pence one and fourpence you are with me sir | D |
| What hour it skills not ten or eleven o the clock | M |
| One day and what a roaring day it was | N |
| Go shop or sight see bar a spit o rain | O |
| In February eighteen sixty nine | P |
| Alexandrina Victoria Fidei | B |
| Hm hm how runs the jargon being on throne | Q |
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| Such sir are all the facts succinctly put | B |
| The basis or substratum what you will | R |
| Of the impending eighty thousand lines | S |
| Not much in em either quoth perhaps simple Hodge | T |
| But there s a superstructure Wait a bit | B |
| Mark first the rationale of the thing | U |
| Hear logic rivel and levigate the deed | B |
| That shilling and for matter o that the pence | V |
| I had o course upo me wi me say | B |
| Mecum s the Latin make a note o that | B |
| When I popp d pen i stand scratch d ear wip d snout | B |
| Let everybody wipe his own himself | W |
| Sniff d tch at snuffbox tumbled up he heed | B |
| Haw haw d not hee haw d that s another guess thing | U |
| Then fumbled at and stumbled out of door | L |
| I shoved the timber ope wi my omoplat | B |
| And in vestibulo i the lobby to wit | B |
| Iacobi Facciolati s rendering sir | D |
| Donn d galligaskins antigropeloes | B |
| And so forth and complete with hat and gloves | B |
| One on and one a dangle i my hand | B |
| And ombrifuge Lord love you case o rain | O |
| I flopp d forth sbuddikins on my own ten toes | B |
| I do assure you there be ten of them | X |
| And went clump clumping up hill and down dale | Y |
| To find myself o the sudden i front o the boy | Z |
| Put case I hadn t em on me could I ha bought | B |
| This sort o kind o what you might call toy | Z |
| This pebble thing o the boy thing Q E D | B |
| That s proven without aid from mumping Pope | A2 |
| Sleek porporate or bloated Cardinal | B2 |
| Isn t it old Fatchaps You re in Euclid now | C2 |
| So having the shilling having i fact a lot | B |
| And pence and halfpence ever so many o them | X |
| I purchased as I think I said before | L |
| The pebble lapis lapidis di dem de | B |
| What nouns crease short i the genitive Fatchaps eh | D2 |
| O the boy a bare legg d beggarly son of a gun | E2 |
| For one and fourpence Here we are again | F2 |
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| Now Law steps in bigwigg d voluminous jaw d | B |
| Investigates and re investigates | B |
| Was the transaction illegal Law shakes head | B |
| Perpend sir all the bearings of the case | B |
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| At first the coin was mine the chattel his | B |
| But now by virtue of the said exchange | I |
| And barter vice versa all the coin | G2 |
| Per juris operationem vests | B |
| I the boy and his assigns till ding o doom | H2 |
| In s cula s culo o o orum | I2 |
| I think I hear the Abate mouth out that | B |
| To have and hold the same to him and them | X |
| Confer some idiot on Conveyancing | U |
| Whereas the pebble and every part thereof | J2 |
| And all that appertaineth thereunto | B |
| Quodcunque pertinet ad eam rem | X |
| I fancy sir my Latin s rather pat | B |
| Or shall will may might can could would or should | B |
| Subaudi c tera clap we to the close | B |
| For what s the good of law in a case o the kind | B |
| Is mine to all intents and purposes | B |
| This settled I resume the thread o the tale | Y |
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| Now for a touch o the vendor s quality | B |
| He says a gen lman bought a pebble of him | K2 |
| This pebble i sooth sir which I hold i my hand | B |
| And paid for t like a gen lman on the nail | Y |
| Did I o ercharge him a ha penny Devil a bit | B |
| Fiddlepin s end Get out you blazing ass | B |
| Gabble o the goose Don t bugaboo baby me | B |
| Go double or quits Yah tittup what s the odds | B |
| There s the transaction view d i the vendor s light | B |
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| Next ask that dumpled hag stood snuffling by | L2 |
| With her three frowsy blowsy brats o babes | B |
| The scum o the kennel cream o the filth heap Faugh | J2 |
| Aie aie aie aie t t t t t | B |
| Stead which we blurt out Hoighty toighty now | C2 |
| And the baker and candlestickmaker and Jack and Gill | R |
| Blear d Goody this and queasy Gaffer that | B |
| Ask the schoolmaster Take schoolmaster first | B |
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| He saw a gentleman purchase of a lad | B |
| A stone and pay for it rite on the square | M2 |
| And carry it off per saltum jauntily | B |
| Propria qu maribus gentleman s property now | C2 |
| Agreeably to the law explain d above | J2 |
| In proprium usum for his private ends | B |
| The boy he chuck d a brown i the air and bit | B |
| I the face the shilling heaved a thumping stone | Q |
| At a lean hen that ran cluck clucking by | L2 |
| And hit her dead as nail i post o door | L |
| Then abiit what s the Ciceronian phrase | B |
| Excessit evasit erupit off slogs boy | Z |
| Off like bird avi similis you observed | B |
| The dative Pretty i the Mantuan Anglice | B |
| Off in three flea skips Hactenus so far | N2 |
| So good tam bene Bene satis male | Y |
| Where was I with my trope bout one in a quag | U |
| I did once hitch the syntax into verse | B |
| Verbum personale a verb personal | R |
| Concordat ay agrees old Fatchaps cum | I2 |
| Nominativo with its nominative | J2 |
| Genere i point o gender numero | N2 |
| O number et persona and person Ut | B |
| Instance Sol ruit down flops sun et and | B |
| Montes umbrantur out flounce mountains Pah | O2 |
| Excuse me sir I think I m going mad | B |
| You see the trick on t though and can yourself | J2 |
| Continue the discourse ad libitum | I2 |
| It takes up about eighty thousand lines | B |
| A thing imagination boggles at | B |
| And might odds bobs sir in judicious hands | B |
| Extend from here to Mesopotamy | I2 |
Charles Stuart Calverley
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