Old Town Types No. 12 - Mrs Munn, The Nurse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDCDD DDEEFFDD GGHHIIDD JJDAKKDD| Mrs Munn the midwife Mother Munn they called her | A |
| Wallowed in the world's woes sickness ne'er appalled her | A |
| She spared no grisly detail as she gossipped on apace | B |
| When 'Me an' Doctor Littlejohn my dear is on a case ' | C |
| For 'Me an' Doctor Littlejohn has awful much to do | D |
| An' some is doin' poorly but we 'opes to pull 'em thro' ' | C |
| Says Mrs Munn the town's nurse short and gingham gowned | D |
| Five feet two in height and four feet around | D |
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| Mrs Munn the midwife toddles down the street | D |
| Telling secrets dropping hints to friends that she may meet | D |
| 'To see the state of 'er my dear You 'ardly would believe | E |
| But me an' Doctor Littlejohn ain't easy to deceive | E |
| Gets 'er likker unbeknownst 'Usband he don't see | F |
| An' she says it's indigestion but you can't tell me | F |
| I knows the signs ' says Mrs Munn with nods and winks profound | D |
| Five feet two of her and four feet around | D |
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| Mrs Munn the midwife no laundered cap | G |
| A black bugled bonnet and an old print wrap | G |
| Were all she knew of uniform Her discipline was slack | H |
| And curious things might happen when the doctor turned his back | H |
| Maddened by her sloven ways wearied by her voice | I |
| He longed to send her packing but he had no other choice | I |
| Than Mrs Munn whose methos were both novel and unsound | D |
| Five feet two of her and four feet around | D |
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| Mrs Munn Mother Munn maybe she served her turn | J |
| For science lagged in those days and men were slow to learn | J |
| Tho' she had great and grievous faults she had her virtues too | D |
| And 'Me an' Doctor Littlejohn' pulled many a hard case thro' | A |
| Where once she messed and muddled thro' mid births and typhoid scares | K |
| A trim efficient Sister now has charge of such affairs | K |
| For Mrs Munn with all her kind is long since underground | D |
| The five feet two of her and four feet around | D |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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