Sally In Our Alley Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBAB DEFEGBAB HBHBBBAB IJKBLBAB MBMBNBAB OBBBPBAB BBBBQBRB| Of all the girls that are so smart | A |
| There 's none like pretty Sally | B |
| She is the darling of my heart | A |
| And she lives in our alley | B |
| There is no lady in the land | C |
| Is half so sweet as Sally | B |
| She is the darling of my heart | A |
| And she lives in our alley | B |
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| Her father he makes cabbage nets | D |
| And through the streets does cry 'em | E |
| Her mother she sells laces long | F |
| To such as please to buy 'em | E |
| But sure such folks could ne'er beget | G |
| So sweet a girl as Sally | B |
| She is the darling of my heart | A |
| And she lives in our alley | B |
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| When she is by I leave my work | H |
| I love her so sincerely | B |
| My master comes like any Turk | H |
| And bangs me most severely | B |
| But let him bang his bellyful | B |
| I'll bear it all for Sally | B |
| She is the darling of my heart | A |
| And she lives in our alley | B |
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| Of all the days that 's in the week | I |
| I dearly love but one day | J |
| And that 's the day that comes betwixt | K |
| A Saturday and Monday | B |
| For then I'm drest all in my best | L |
| To walk abroad with Sally | B |
| She is the darling of my heart | A |
| And she lives in our alley | B |
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| My master carries me to church | M |
| And often am I blam egrave d | B |
| Because I leave him in the lurch | M |
| As soon as text is nam egrave d | B |
| I leave the church in sermon time | N |
| And slink away to Sally | B |
| She is the darling of my heart | A |
| And she lives in our alley | B |
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| When Christmas comes about again | O |
| O then I shall have money | B |
| I'll hoard it up and box it all | B |
| I'll give it to my honey | B |
| I would it were ten thousand pound | P |
| I'd give it all to Sally | B |
| She is the darling of my heart | A |
| And she lives in our alley | B |
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| My master and the neighbors all | B |
| Make gave of me and Sally | B |
| And but for her I'd better be | B |
| A slave and row a galley | B |
| But when my seven long years are out | Q |
| O then I'll marry Sally | B |
| O then we'll wed and then we'll bed | R |
| But not in our alley | B |
Henry Carey
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