Mr And Mrs Discobbolos Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDCEEFEFCE FGFFGH FEFG FIJJKL FEFK EMNNMEEFEFM F ECFFCFFFEFCE EOPCOE FEFOE CLEE F FEFL ECQQCMR FEFC ECIKCSSFEFC| First Part | A |
| Mr and Mrs Discobbolos | B |
| Climbed to the top of a wall | C |
| And they sat to watch the sunset sky | D |
| And to hear the Nupiter Piffkin cry | D |
| And the Biscuit Buffalo call | C |
| They took up a roll and some Chamomile tea | E |
| And both were as happy as happy could be | E |
| Till Mrs Discobbolos said | F |
| 'Oh W X Y Z | E |
| It has just come into my head | F |
| Suppose we should happen to fall | C |
| Darling Mr Discobbolos | E |
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| 'Suppose we should fall down flumpetty | F |
| Just like two pieces of stone | G |
| On to the thorns or into the moat | F |
| What would become of your new green coat | F |
| And might you not break a bone | G |
| It never occurred to me before | H |
| That perhaps we shall never go down any more ' | - |
| And Mrs Discobbolos said | F |
| 'Oh W X Y Z | E |
| What put it into your head | F |
| To climb up this wall my own | G |
| Darling Mr Discobbolos ' | - |
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| Mr Discobbolos answered | F |
| 'At first it gave me pain | I |
| And I felt my ears turn perfectly pink | J |
| When your exclamation made me think | J |
| We might never get down again | K |
| But now I believe it is wiser far | L |
| To remain for ever just where we are ' | - |
| And Mr Discobbolos said | F |
| 'Oh W X Y Z | E |
| It has just come into my head | F |
| ' We shall never go down again | K |
| Dearest Mrs Discobbolos ' | - |
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| So Mr and Mrs Discobbolos | E |
| Stood up and began to sing | M |
| 'Far away from hurry and strife | N |
| Here we will pass the rest of life | N |
| Ding a dong ding dong ding | M |
| We want no knives nor forks nor chairs | E |
| No tables nor carpets nor household cares | E |
| From worry of life we've fled | F |
| 'Oh W X Y Z | E |
| There is no more trouble ahead | F |
| Sorrow or any such thing | M |
| For Mr and Mrs Discobbolos ' | - |
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| - | |
| Second Part | F |
| - | |
| Mr and Mrs Discobbolos | E |
| Lived on the top of the wall | C |
| For twenty years a month and a day | F |
| Till their hair had grown all pearly gray | F |
| And their teeth began to fall | C |
| They never were ill or at all dejected | F |
| By all admired and by some respected | F |
| Till Mrs Discobbolos said | F |
| 'Oh W X Y Z | E |
| It has just come into my head | F |
| We have no more room at all | C |
| Darling Mr Discobbolos | E |
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| Look at our six fine boys | E |
| And our six sweet girls so fair | O |
| Upon this wall they have all been born | P |
| And not one of the twelve has happened to fall | C |
| Through my maternal care | O |
| Surely they should not pass their lives | E |
| Without any chance of husbands or wives ' | - |
| And Mrs Discobbolos said | F |
| 'Oh W X Y Z | E |
| Did it never come into your head | F |
| That our lives must be lived elsewhere | O |
| Dearest Mr Discobbolos | E |
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| 'They have never been at a ball | C |
| Nor have even seen a bazaar | L |
| Nor have heard folks say in a tone all hearty | E |
| 'What loves of girls at a garden party | E |
| Those Misses Discobbolos are ' | - |
| Morning and night it drives me wild | F |
| To think of the fate of each darling child ' | - |
| But Mr Discobbolos said | F |
| 'Oh W X Y Z | E |
| What has come to your fiddledum head | F |
| What a runcible goose you are | L |
| Octopod Mrs Discobbolos ' | - |
| - | |
| Suddenly Mr Discobbolos | E |
| Slid from the top of the wall | C |
| And beneath it he dug a dreadful trench | Q |
| And filled it with dynamite gunpowder gench | Q |
| And aloud he began to call | C |
| 'Let the wild bee sing | M |
| And the blue bird hum | R |
| For the end of your lives has certainly come ' | - |
| And Mrs Discobbolos said | F |
| 'Oh W X Y Z | E |
| We shall presently all be dead | F |
| On this ancient runcible wall | C |
| Terrible Mr Discobbolos ' | - |
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| Pensively Mr Discobbolos | E |
| Sat with his back to the wall | C |
| He lighted a match and fired the train | I |
| And the mortified mountain echoed again | K |
| To the sound of an awful fall | C |
| And all the Discobbolos family flew | S |
| In thousands of bits to the sky so blue | S |
| And no one was left to have said | F |
| 'Oh W X Y Z | E |
| Has it come into anyone's head | F |
| That the end has happened to all | C |
| Of the whole of the Clan Discobbolos ' | - |
Edward Lear
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