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 ECIKCSSFEFCFirst 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 |
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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 ' | - |
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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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