The Two Old Bachelors Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBCD EEFF EEGG HHIIJJK LLMM E MMEEEE NN| Two old Bachelors were living in one house | A |
| One caught a Muffin the other caught a Mouse | A |
| Said he who caught the Muffin to him who caught the Mouse | A |
| 'This happens just in time For we've nothing in the house | A |
| 'Save a tiny slice of lemon nd a teaspoonful of honey | B |
| 'And what to do for dinner since we haven't any money | B |
| 'And what can we expect if we haven't any dinner | C |
| 'But to loose our teeth and eyelashes and keep on growing thinner ' | D |
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| Said he who caught the Mouse to him who caught the Muffin | E |
| 'We might cook this little Mouse if we had only some Stuffin' | E |
| 'If we had but Sage andOnion we could do extremely well | F |
| 'But how to get that Stuffin' it is difficult to tell' | F |
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| Those two old Bachelors ran quickly to the town | E |
| And asked for Sage and Onions as they wandered up and down | E |
| They borrowed two large Onions but no Sage was to be found | G |
| In the Shops or in the Market or in all the Gardens round | G |
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| But some one said 'A hill there is a little to the north | H |
| 'And to its purpledicular top a narrow way leads forth | H |
| 'And there among the rugged rocks abides an ancient Sage | I |
| 'An earnest Man who reads all day a most perplexing page | I |
| 'Climb up and seize him by the toes all studious as he sits | J |
| 'And pull him down and chop him into endless little bits | J |
| 'Then mix him with your Onion cut up likewise into Scraps | K |
| 'When your Stuffin' will be ready and very good perhaps ' | - |
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| Those two old Bachelors without loss of time | L |
| The nearly purpledicular crags at once began to climb | L |
| And at the top among the rocks all seated in a nook | M |
| They saw that Sage a reading of a most enormous book | M |
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| 'You earnest Sage ' aloud they cried 'your book you've read enough in | E |
| 'We wish to chop you into bits to mix you into Stuffin' ' | - |
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| But that old Sage looked calmly up and with his awful book | M |
| At those two Bachelors' bald heads a certain aim he took | M |
| and over crag and precipice they rolled promiscuous down | E |
| At once they rolled and never stopped in lane or field or town | E |
| And when they reached their house they found besides their want of Stuffin' | E |
| The Mouse had fled and previously had eaten up the Muffin | E |
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| They left their home in silence by the once convivial door | N |
| And from that hour those Bachelors were never heard of more | N |
Edward Lear
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