Apple-pie And Cheese Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Full many a sinful notionA
Conceived of foreign powersB
Has come across the oceanA
To harm this land of oursB
And heresies called fashionsC
Have modesty effacedD
And baleful morbid passionsC
Corrupt our native tasteD
O tempora O moresE
What profanations theseF
That seek to dim the gloriesF
Of apple pie and cheeseF
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I'm glad my educationA
Enables me to standD
Against the vile temptationA
Held out on every handD
Eschewing all the tittlesF
With vanity repleteD
I'm loyal to the victualsF
Our grandsires used to eatD
I'm glad I've got three willing boysF
To hang around and teaseF
Their mother for the filling joysF
Of apple pie and cheeseF
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Your flavored creams and icesF
And your dainty angel foodD
Are mighty fine devicesF
To regale the dainty dudeD
Your terrapin and oystersF
With wine to wash 'em downG
Are just the thing for roistersF
When painting of the townG
No flippant sugared notionA
Shall my appetite appeaseF
Or bate my soul's devotionA
To apple pie and cheeseF
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The pie my Julia makes meH
God bless her Yankee waysF
On memory's pinions takes meH
To dear Green Mountain daysF
And seems like I see MotherI
Lean on the window sillJ
A handin' me and brotherI
What she knows 'll keep us stillJ
And these feelings are so gratefulK
Says I Julia if you pleaseF
I'll take another platefulK
Of that apple pie and cheeseF
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And cheese No alien it sirI
That's brought across the seaH
No Dutch antique nor SwitzerI
Nor glutinous de BrieH
There's nothing I abhor soF
As mawmets of this ilkL
Give me the harmless morceauF
That's made of true blue milkL
No matter what conditionsF
Dyspeptic come to feazeF
The best of all physiciansF
Is apple pie and cheeseF
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Though ribalds may decry 'emM
For these twin boons we standD
Partaking thrice per diemN
Of their fulness out of handD
No enervating fashionA
Shall cheat us of our rightD
To gratify our passionA
With a mouthful at a biteD
We'll cut it square or biasF
Or any way we pleaseF
And faith shall justify usF
When we carve our pie and cheeseF
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De gustibus 't is statedD
Non disputandum estD
Which meaneth when translatedD
That all is for the bestD
So let the foolish choose 'emM
The vapid sweets of sinO
I will not disabuse 'emM
Of the heresy they're inO
But I when I undress meH
Each night upon my kneesF
Will ask the Lord to bless meH
With apple pie and cheeseF

Eugene Field



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