Ballade Of The Breakfast Table Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDBD ABEBBDBD ABFGBBDBD D BDBD| When the Festal Board as the papers say | A |
| Groans 'neath the weight of a lot to eat | B |
| At breakfast Fruhstuck or dejeuner | C |
| As a bard tri lingual I'm rather neat | B |
| At breakfast then if I may repeat | B |
| This is what gets me into a huff | D |
| This is a query I cannot beat | B |
| Why don't they ever have spoons enough | D |
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| I've broken my fast with the grave and gay | A |
| With hoi polloi and with the elite | B |
| I've been all over the U S A | E |
| From Dorchester Crossing to Kearney Street | B |
| But aye when I sit in the morning seat | B |
| Comes to my notice the self same bluff | D |
| Plenty of food but in this they cheat | B |
| Why don't they ever have spoons enough | D |
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| Take it at breakfast only to day | A |
| This was the layout fresh and sweet | B |
| Canteloupe sweet as the new mown hay Footnote And about as edible | F |
| Cereal one of the brands Footnote To advertisers This space for sale | G |
| of wheat | B |
| Soft boiled eggs we've cut out the meat | B |
| Coffee a claro manila buff | D |
| Napery china and glasses complete | B |
| Why don't they ever have spoons enough | D |
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| L'ENVOI | D |
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| Autocratesses forgive my heat | B |
| But isn't it time to change that stuff | D |
| Small is the benison I entreat | B |
| Why don't they ever have spoons enough | D |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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