The Spotted Heifers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBAAAAAACCDDEEFFGG HHIIGGJJEEKKAALLMMAA LLMMHHEEKKNNJJOOPIAAMr Jeremiah Jeffers | A |
Owned a pair of spotted heifers | A |
These he sold for two pounds ten | B |
To Mr Robert Raymond Wren | B |
Who reared them in the lucerne paddocks | A |
Owned by Mr Martin Maddox | A |
And sold them when they grew to cows | A |
To Mr Donald David Dowse | A |
A grazier Mr Egbert Innes | A |
Bought them then for twenty guineas | A |
Milked the cows and sold the milk | C |
To Mr Stephen Evan Silk | C |
Who rents a butter factory | D |
From Mr Laurence Lampard Lee | D |
Here once a week come for his butter | E |
The grocer Mr Roland Rutter | E |
Who keeps a shop in Sunny Street | F |
Next door to Mr Peter Peat | F |
He every afternoon at two | G |
Sent his fair daughter Lucy Loo | G |
To Mr Rutter's shop to buy | H |
Such things as were not priced too high | H |
Especially a shilling tin | I |
Of Fuller's Food for Folk Too Thin | I |
This food was bought for Lucy Loo | G |
A girl of charming manners who | G |
Was much too pale and much too slight | J |
To be a very pleasant sight | J |
When Lucy Loo beheld the butter | E |
Stocked by Mr Roland Rutter | E |
She said I'll have a pound of that | K |
She had it and thenceforth grew fat | K |
We now we go back to Mr Jeffers | A |
Who sold the pair of spotted heifers | A |
He had a son James Edgar John | L |
A handsome lad to gaze upon | L |
Who had now reached that time of life | M |
When young men feel they need a wife | M |
But no young girl about the place | A |
Exactly had the kind of face | A |
That seemed to suit James Edgar John | L |
A saddening thing to think upon | L |
For he grew sad and sick of life | M |
Because he could not find a wife | M |
One day young James was passing by | H |
A look of sorrow in his eye | H |
The shop of Mr Roland Rutter | E |
When Lucy Loo came out with butter | E |
At once James Edgar John said That | K |
Is just the girl for me She's fat | K |
He offered her his heart and hand | N |
And prospects of his father's land | N |
The Reverend Saul Sylvester Slight | J |
Performed the simple marriage rite | J |
The happy couple went their way | O |
And lived and loved unto this day | O |
Events cannot be far foreseen | P |
And all ths joy might not have been | I |
If Mr Jeremiah Jeffers | A |
Had kept his pair of spotted heifers | A |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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