William And Bill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE EEFF GGHH IIJJ KKLL EEDC MMNN OOPP LLQQ| Our Mr Jiggs was certainly an estimable youth | A |
| A pillar of propriety a champion of truth | A |
| He had a good position in a warehouse in the town | B |
| A staunch church worker he became a layman of renown | B |
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| Jiggs owned a bijou villa in a little suburb here | C |
| His wife was small but precious and their baby was a dear | D |
| But a fly in William's ointment and intrude such creatures will | E |
| Was his father known about the neighborhood as Bill | E |
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| Now if you're a serious soul and known as William still | E |
| It's unpleasant to have hanging round a father who is Bill | E |
| So William had discovered for at sixty two his dad | F |
| Behaved with great exuberance aspired to be a lad | F |
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| Got shicker on occasion and came home with the milk | G |
| Which also means the whisky and with fellows of the ilk | G |
| Would sing a ribald ditty and he'd dance upon his hat | H |
| Then curl hard down and slumber on the goodly William's mat | H |
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| If you're a worker at the church abhorring wicked fun | I |
| An old man sleeping on your mat in full light of the sun | I |
| Is very detrimental so William had to steal | J |
| From bed full oft his roystering pa to drag in by the heel | J |
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| And Bill went giddy with the girls and made excessive love | K |
| To the wives of William's neighbors There was one two doors above | K |
| Who said he was a nice old man so very clean and gay | L |
| She let him buy her suppers and went with him to the play | L |
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| Her husband was a travelling man One day he spoke to Bill | E |
| Bill pointed out where on the lawn toiled unsuspecting Will | E |
| That ma he struck at Will with his fist a thing of fear | D |
| He knocked him down he kicked him and he trod upon his ear | C |
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| He beat him with a rake and with the hose he washed him round | M |
| Till William stunned and helpless now was presently half downed | M |
| Then said the fellow Billy Jiggs I hope from this time out | N |
| You'll kindly let my wife alone when I am not about | N |
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| Will sadly looked upon his dad reproachment in his eye | O |
| Bills raised him up and to his glance made reverent reply | O |
| Sins of the fathers fall upon the children Be resigned | P |
| It's according to the gospel so I thought you wouldn't mind | P |
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| Now William hides at Cooktown and old Bill resides at hay | L |
| Responsible for all his venal actions so to say | L |
| Of William Jiggs whose gorn all wrong a touching tale he'll tell | Q |
| A renouncin' of the Scriptures And I brought him up so well | Q |
Edward Dyson
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