Ole Kate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HIJI FBKB GBGB BLGM| When I was only a youngster | A |
| Sing toodle doodlede ootl | B |
| Ole Kate would git her 'arf a pint | C |
| And wouldn't' giv' a damn hoot | D |
| - | |
| 'Them stairs them stairs them gordam stairs | E |
| Will be the death of me | F |
| I never heerd her say nothin' | G |
| About the priv'lege of liberty | F |
| - | |
| She'd come a sweatin' up with the coals | H |
| An a sloshin' round with 'er mop | I |
| Startin' in about a m | J |
| And didn't seem never to stop | I |
| - | |
| She died on the job they tells me | F |
| Fell plump into her pail | B |
| Never got properly tanked as I saw | K |
| And never got took to jail | B |
| - | |
| Just went on a sloshin' | G |
| And totin' up scuttles of coal | B |
| And kissin her cat fer diversion | G |
| Cod rest her sloshin soul | B |
| - | |
| Gimme a kissy cuddle' | B |
| She'd say to her tibby cat | L |
| But she never made no mention | G |
| Of this here proletariat | M |
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