Apple-pie And Cheese Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFFF ADADFDFDFFFF FDFDFGFGAFAF HFHFIJIJKFKF IHIHFLFLFFFF MDNDADADFFFF DDDDMOMOHFHFFull many a sinful notion | A |
Conceived of foreign powers | B |
Has come across the ocean | A |
To harm this land of ours | B |
And heresies called fashions | C |
Have modesty effaced | D |
And baleful morbid passions | C |
Corrupt our native taste | D |
O tempora O mores | E |
What profanations these | F |
That seek to dim the glories | F |
Of apple pie and cheese | F |
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I'm glad my education | A |
Enables me to stand | D |
Against the vile temptation | A |
Held out on every hand | D |
Eschewing all the tittles | F |
With vanity replete | D |
I'm loyal to the victuals | F |
Our grandsires used to eat | D |
I'm glad I've got three willing boys | F |
To hang around and tease | F |
Their mother for the filling joys | F |
Of apple pie and cheese | F |
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Your flavored creams and ices | F |
And your dainty angel food | D |
Are mighty fine devices | F |
To regale the dainty dude | D |
Your terrapin and oysters | F |
With wine to wash 'em down | G |
Are just the thing for roisters | F |
When painting of the town | G |
No flippant sugared notion | A |
Shall my appetite appease | F |
Or bate my soul's devotion | A |
To apple pie and cheese | F |
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The pie my Julia makes me | H |
God bless her Yankee ways | F |
On memory's pinions takes me | H |
To dear Green Mountain days | F |
And seems like I see Mother | I |
Lean on the window sill | J |
A handin' me and brother | I |
What she knows 'll keep us still | J |
And these feelings are so grateful | K |
Says I Julia if you please | F |
I'll take another plateful | K |
Of that apple pie and cheese | F |
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And cheese No alien it sir | I |
That's brought across the sea | H |
No Dutch antique nor Switzer | I |
Nor glutinous de Brie | H |
There's nothing I abhor so | F |
As mawmets of this ilk | L |
Give me the harmless morceau | F |
That's made of true blue milk | L |
No matter what conditions | F |
Dyspeptic come to feaze | F |
The best of all physicians | F |
Is apple pie and cheese | F |
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Though ribalds may decry 'em | M |
For these twin boons we stand | D |
Partaking thrice per diem | N |
Of their fulness out of hand | D |
No enervating fashion | A |
Shall cheat us of our right | D |
To gratify our passion | A |
With a mouthful at a bite | D |
We'll cut it square or bias | F |
Or any way we please | F |
And faith shall justify us | F |
When we carve our pie and cheese | F |
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De gustibus 't is stated | D |
Non disputandum est | D |
Which meaneth when translated | D |
That all is for the best | D |
So let the foolish choose 'em | M |
The vapid sweets of sin | O |
I will not disabuse 'em | M |
Of the heresy they're in | O |
But I when I undress me | H |
Each night upon my knees | F |
Will ask the Lord to bless me | H |
With apple pie and cheese | F |
Eugene Field
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