Knife-grinder, The Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCAD DEF DGHA IEJK LDIA C CDCJ GDHM NDJC A ODPQ AFriend of Humanity | A |
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Needy Knife grinder whither are you going | B |
Rough is the road your wheel is out of order | C |
Bleak blows the blast your hat has got a hole in't | A |
So have your breeches | D |
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Weary Knife grinder little think the proud ones | D |
Who in their coaches roll along the turnpike | E |
Road what hard work 'tis crying all day' Knives and | F |
Scissors to grind O ' | - |
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Tell me Knife grinder how you came to grind knives | D |
Did some rich man tyrannically use you | G |
Was it the squire or parson of the parish | H |
Or the attorney | A |
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Was it the squire for killing of his game or | I |
Covetous parson for his tithes distraining | E |
Or roguish lawyer made you lose your little | J |
All in a law suit | K |
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Have you not read the Rights of Man by Tom Paine | L |
Drops of compassion tremble on my eyelids | D |
Ready to fall as soon as you have told your | I |
Pitiful story | A |
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Knife grinder | C |
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Story God bless you I have none to tell sir | C |
Only last night a drinking at the Chequers | D |
This poor old hat and breeches as you see were | C |
Tom in a scuffle | J |
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Constables came up for to take me into | G |
Custody they took me before the justice | D |
Justice Oldmixon put me in the parish | H |
Stocks for a vagrant | M |
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I should be glad to drink your Honour's health in | N |
A pot of beer if you will give me sixpence | D |
But for my part I never love to meddle | J |
With politics sir | C |
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Friend of Humanity | A |
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I give thee sixpence I will see thee damn'd first | O |
Wretch whom no sense of wrongs can rouse to vengeance | D |
Sordid unfeeling reprobate degraded | P |
Spiritless outcast | Q |
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Kicks the Knife grinder overturns his wheel and exit in a transport of Republican enthusiasm and universal philanthropy | A |
George Canning
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