The Song Against Grocers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBADAD AEAEFGHG IJKJLMNM OPQPARSR TUVUWXYX YBZBYYYY AA2YA2KB2C2B2| God made the wicked Grocer | A |
| For a mystery and a sign | B |
| That men might shun the awful shops | C |
| And go to inns to dine | B |
| Where the bacon's on the rafter | A |
| And the wine is in the wood | D |
| And God that made good laughter | A |
| Has seen that they are good | D |
| - | |
| The evil hearted Grocer | A |
| Would call his mother Ma'am | E |
| And bow at her and bob at her | A |
| Her aged soul to damn | E |
| And rub his horrid hands and ask | F |
| What article was next | G |
| Though MORTIS IN ARTICULO | H |
| Should be her proper text | G |
| - | |
| His props are not his children | I |
| But pert lads underpaid | J |
| Who call out Cash and bang about | K |
| To work his wicked trade | J |
| He keeps a lady in a cage | L |
| Most cruelly all day | M |
| And makes her count and calls her Miss | N |
| Until she fades away | M |
| - | |
| The righteous minds of innkeepers | O |
| Induce them now and then | P |
| To crack a bottle with a friend | Q |
| Or treat unmoneyed men | P |
| But who hath seen the Grocer | A |
| Treat housemaids to his teas | R |
| Or crack a bottle of fish sauce | S |
| Or stand a man a cheese | R |
| - | |
| He sells us sands of Araby | T |
| As sugar for cash down | U |
| He sweeps his shop and sells the dust | V |
| The purest salt in town | U |
| He crams with cans of poisoned meat | W |
| Poor subjects of the King | X |
| And when they die by thousands | Y |
| Why he laughs like anything | X |
| - | |
| The wicked Grocer groces | Y |
| In spirits and in wine | B |
| Not frankly and in fellowship | Z |
| As men in inns do dine | B |
| But packed with soap and sardines | Y |
| And carried off by grooms | Y |
| For to be snatched by Duchesses | Y |
| And drunk in dressing rooms | Y |
| - | |
| The hell instructed Grocer | A |
| Has a temple made of tin | A2 |
| And the ruin of good innkeepers | Y |
| Is loudly urged therein | A2 |
| But now the sands are running out | K |
| From sugar of a sort | B2 |
| The Grocer trembles for his time | C2 |
| Just like his weight is short | B2 |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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