Mutton Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFGF BHFFAAII GGJJKLMMEENON| In the everlasting summer when the town is limp with heat | A |
| and the asphalt of the footpath curls your boots and burns your feet | A |
| When you're creased and crabbed and sodden and can hardly raise a crawl | B |
| And the persperation's drippin' in a constant waterfall | B |
| There's a penetratin' odor gets abroad and fairly roars | C |
| It will creep in through the keyholes and it sneaks beneath the doors | C |
| And it fills your happy home up from the cellar to the roof | D |
| Until ev'ry other odour holds its breath and stands aloof | D |
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| That's Mutton Mutton | E |
| Everlastin' Mutton | E |
| All pervadin' never fadin' smell of cookin' sheep | F |
| Into ev'ry room 'twill roam chasin' you from house and home | G |
| Mutton flaunted mutton haunted even in your sleep | F |
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| You can smell it in the parlour you can feel it in the hall | B |
| you can HEAR it in the kitchen where it hugs you like a pall | H |
| Hov'ring o'er your couch at midnight wafting thro' your troubled sleep | F |
| First to greet you in the mornin' when the day begins to peep | F |
| Seek you vainly to evade it in an open air retreat | A |
| It will rise and upper cut you from the gratin's in the street | A |
| Vain are all your disinfectants for they fail the woes to drown | I |
| Of a mutton ridden people in a mutton scented town | I |
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| Oh the irony of hearin' songs about the home sweet home | G |
| When you swelter in an oven where the kitchen odours roam | G |
| When each kindly word is wafted on a mutton scented breeze | J |
| And each sigh stirs up remembrance of a week of hashed up teas | J |
| Where endearing terms are flavoured with a touch of mutton raw | K |
| And you sample last week's dinner ev'ry tender breath you draw | L |
| Do you wonder that our home life isn't what it ought to be | M |
| Do you know what sets us drinkin' in our abject misery | M |
| It's Mutton Mutton | E |
| Soul destroyin' Mutton | E |
| Over cloudin' odour shroudin' all in life that's bright | N |
| By a thoughtless movement stirred chokin' down a kindly word | O |
| Ever present effervescent mornin' noon and night | N |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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