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