Where's The Poker? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBCBBDDEEFFGHIIJJ CKLLBBGHMMNNOPBB| The poker lost poor Susan storm'd | A |
| And all the rites of rage perform'd | A |
| As scolding crying swearing sweating | B |
| Abusing fidgetting and fretting | B |
| Nothing but villany and thieving | B |
| Good heavens what a world we live in | C |
| If I don't find it in the morning | B |
| I'll surely give my master warning | B |
| He'd better far shut up his doors | D |
| Than keep such good for nothing whores | D |
| For wheresoe'er their trade they drive | E |
| We vartuous bodies cannot thrive | E |
| Well may poor Susan grunt and groan | F |
| Misfortunes never come alone | F |
| But tread each other's heels in throngs | G |
| For the next day she lost the tongs | H |
| The salt box colander and pot | I |
| Soon shar'd the same untimely lot | I |
| In vain she vails and wages spent | J |
| On new ones for the new ones went | J |
| There'd been she swore some dev'l or witch in | C |
| To rob or plunder all the kitchen | K |
| One night she to her chamber crept | L |
| Where for a month she had not slept | L |
| Her master being to her seeming | B |
| A better play fellow than dreaming | B |
| Curse on the author of these wrongs | G |
| In her own bed she found the tongs | H |
| Hang Thomas for an idle joker | M |
| In her own bed she found the poker | M |
| With the salt box pepper box and kettle | N |
| With all the culinary metal | N |
| Be warn'd ye fair by Susans crosses | O |
| Keep chaste and guard yourselves from losses | P |
| For if young girls delight in kissing | B |
| No wonder that the poker's missing | B |
Christopher Smart
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