The Logical Vegetarian Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDED FFGHHG IIGJJG KLGMMG NNGOOG PQGDDG| Why shouldn't I have a purely vegetarian drink Why | A |
| shouldn't I take vegetables in their highest form so to | B |
| speak The modest vegetarians ought to stick to wine or | C |
| beer plain vegetable drinks instead of filling their | D |
| goblets with the blood of bulls and elephants as all | E |
| conventional meat eaters do I suppose Dalroy | D |
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| You will find me drinking rum | F |
| Like a sailor in a slum | F |
| You will find me drinking beer like a Bavarian | G |
| You will find me drinking gin | H |
| In the lowest kind of inn | H |
| Because I am a rigid Vegetarian | G |
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| So I cleared the inn of wine | I |
| And I tried to climb the sign | I |
| And I tried to hail the constable as Marion | G |
| But he said I couldn't speak | J |
| And he bowled me to the Beak | J |
| Because I was a Happy Vegetarian | G |
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| Oh I know a Doctor Gluck | K |
| And his nose it had a hook | L |
| And his attitudes were anything but Aryan | G |
| So I gave him all the pork | M |
| That I had upon a fork | M |
| Because I am myself a Vegetarian | G |
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| I am silent in the Club | N |
| I am silent in the pub | N |
| I am silent on a bally peak in Darien | G |
| For I stuff away for life | O |
| Shoving peas in with a knife | O |
| Because I am a rigid Vegetarian | G |
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| No more the milk of cows | P |
| Shall pollute my private house | Q |
| Than the milk of the wild mares of the Barbarian | G |
| I will stick to port and sherry | D |
| For they are so very very | D |
| So very very very Vegetarian | G |
G. K. Chesterton
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