William And Bill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE EEFF GGHH IIJJ KKLL EEDC MMNN OOPP LLQQOur 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 George Dyson
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