Apple-pie And Cheese Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFFF ADADFDFDFFFF FDFDFGFGAFAF HFHFIJIJKFKF IHIHFLFLFFFF MDNDADADFFFF DDDDMOMOHFHF| Full 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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