Cherry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEE DD DFFDD GGDDHHI JJDD KL AACDD M| 'Some I got with amber stems an' some with silver bands | A |
| Bent ones an' straight ones an' all sorts o' brands | A |
| A lot of pipes sez you for one old pensioner to own | B |
| But folks as soon as Christmas comes they won't leave me alone | B |
| 'We'll give old Pete a pipe ' they sez forgetful in their way | C |
| It's wot they gives me every year ' said old Pete Parraday | D |
| 'Bent ones an' straight ones some must ha' cost real dear | E |
| More than I'd smoke if I should live for two hundred year | E |
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| ''We'll give ole Pete a pipe ' they sez People is awful good | D |
| Here in the bush 'He sucks ' they sez 'at that ole cherrywood | D |
| All bound with bits of wire an' stuff an' cracked an' caked up too ' | - |
| But lordy none of 'em don't know that pipe the way I do | D |
| I've had him over seven year an' I just likes him fine | F |
| For cracked an' all an' caked an' all he's a good ole mate o' mine | F |
| 'Cherry ' I calls him just for short I own he smells no end | D |
| But if I was to lose him now I'd feel I'd lost a friend | D |
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| 'Yes he knows me an' I knows him a cranky coot some ways | G |
| Got to be youmered like a man he has his sulky days | G |
| Goes stubborn an' won't dror at all if I packs him too tight | D |
| An' if I cuts the baccy coarse the cow won't stay alight | D |
| But on long winter evenin's there by the blazin' log | H |
| The three of us gits yarnin' him an' me an' my ole dog | H |
| But lordy if I told you all about ole Cherry here | I |
| You'd say me brain was softnin' you'd say 'Ole Pete's gone queer ' | - |
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| 'He lost his self last winter down there along the creek | J |
| An' a pretty dance he led me with his crazy hide an' seek | J |
| That's how I catched pnoomonier The doctor sez 'Yer mad | D |
| Risk death for that old stikin' pipe ' But I sez 'Listen lad | D |
| Ole Cherry does me far more good than all your doctor's stuff ' | - |
| But he jist stands an' grins at me he knowed it sure enough | K |
| 'Cherry ' I sez 'has been my mate ' But he sez 'Hold yer row | L |
| You tough ole hunk o' hide ' he sez 'Sit up an' drink this now ' | - |
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| 'Some I got with amber stems an' some with silver bands | A |
| Bent ones an' straight ones all sorts o' brands | A |
| If you came into my bush hut you'd see a brave array | C |
| Pipes of every shape an' cut ' said old Pete Parraday | D |
| 'But don't you say you seen 'em 'cos folks is awful good | D |
| 'We'll give ole Pete a pipe ' they sez 'Pooh That ole cherrywood ' | - |
| Yes folks is kind at Christmas time but now an' then I grants | M |
| I wish they'd stand a man a short or p'raps a pair o' pants ' | - |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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