The Tariff On Tin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBCDD EEFFGG EE HHIIHH HHBBBHHGG DJGJGKLKMKNGGOOOO POOHHBBPPOOPPPPOOQRR OOO SSHHSOOTTTDDBBB| Monarch of Hannah's rocking chair | A |
| With unclipped beard and unkempt hair | A |
| Sitting at ease by the kitchen fire | B |
| Nor heeding the wind and the driving sleet | C |
| Jo Lumpkin perused the Daily Liar | B |
| A leading and stanch Democratic sheet | C |
| While Hannah his wife in her calico | D |
| Sat knitting a pair of mittens for Jo | D |
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| Hanner he said and he raised his eyes | E |
| And looked exceedingly grave and wise | E |
| The kentry's agoin I guess tu the dogs | F |
| Them durned Republikins they air hogs | F |
| A dev'lish purty fix we air in | G |
| They've gone un riz the teriff on tin | G |
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| How's thet said Hannah and turned her eyes | E |
| With a look of wonder and vague surprise | E |
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| Why them confoundered Congriss chaps | H |
| Hez knocked the prices out uv our craps | H |
| We can't sell butter ner beans no more | I |
| Tu enny furren ship er shore | I |
| Becuz them durned Republikins | H |
| Hez gone un riz the teriff on tins | H |
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| Hannah dropped her knitting work on her knees | H |
| And looked very solemn and ill at ease | H |
| She gazed profoundly into the fire | B |
| Then hitched her chair a little bit nigher | B |
| And said as she glanced at the Daily Liar | B |
| With a sad wan look in her buttermilk eyes | H |
| I vum thet's a tax on punkin pies | H |
| Fer they know we allers bakes 'em in | G |
| Pans un platters un plates uv tin | G |
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| I wouldn't agrumbled a bit said Jo | D |
| Et a tax on sugar un salt un sich | J |
| But I swow it's a morul political sin | G |
| Tu drive the farmer intu the ditch | J |
| With thet pesky teriff on tin | G |
| Ef they'd a put a teriff on irn un coal | K |
| Un hides un taller un hemlock bark | L |
| Why thet might a helped us out uv a hole | K |
| By buildin uv mills un givin uv work | M |
| Un gladd'nin many a farmer's soul | K |
| By raisin the price of pertaters un pork | N |
| But durn their eyes it's a morul sin | G |
| They've gone un riz the teriff on tin | G |
| I wouldn't wonder a bit ef Blaine | O |
| Hed diskivered a tin mine over in Maine | O |
| Er else he hez foundered a combinashin | O |
| Tu gobble the tin uv the hull creashin | O |
| I'll bet Jay Gould is intu the'trust ' | - |
| Un they've gone in tergether tu make er bust | P |
| Un tu keep the British frum crowdin in | O |
| They've gone un riz the teriff on tin | O |
| What'll we du fer pans un pails | H |
| When the cow comes in un the old uns fails | H |
| Tu borrer a word frum Scripter Hanner | B |
| Un du it tu in pious manner | B |
| You'll hev tu go down in yer sock fer a ducat | P |
| Er milk old Roan in a wooden bucket | P |
| Fer them Republikins durn their skin | O |
| Hez riz sich a turrible teriff on tin | O |
| Tu cents a pound on British tin plate | P |
| Why Hanner you see at thet air rate | P |
| Accordin tu this ere newspaper print | P |
| Un it mus be so er it wouldn't' be in't | P |
| It's a dollar un a half on one tin pan | O |
| Un about six shillin on a coffee can | O |
| Un ten shillin Hanner on a dinner pail | Q |
| Gol won't it make the workin men squeal | R |
| Thet durned Republikin tax un steal | R |
| They call it Protecshin but blast my skin | O |
| Ef it aint a morul political sin | O |
| Thet durned Republikin teriff on tin | O |
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| Un then they hev put a teriff on silk | S |
| Un satin un velvit un thet air ilk | S |
| Un broadcloth un brandy un Havanny cigars | H |
| Un them slick silk hats thet our preacher wears | H |
| Un he'll hev tu wear humspun un drink skim milk | S |
| Un Hanner you see we'll hev tu be savin | O |
| Un whittle our store bill down tu a shavin | O |
| You can't go tu meetin in silks I vum | T |
| You'll hev tu wear ging um er stay tu hum | T |
| But Hannah said sharply I won't though I swum | T |
| And Hannah gazed wistfully on her Jo | D |
| As he rocked himself mournfully to and fro | D |
| And then she looked thoughtfully into the fire | B |
| While the sleet fell faster and the wind blew higher | B |
| And Jo took a turn at the Daily Liar | B |
Hanford Lennox Gordon
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