Black Kate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGDHD IJIJKLKL MBMBNONO PQPQRSRS OTOTRDRD UVUVWVWV XYXYOQOQ ISISOZOZ| KATE they say is seventeen | A |
| Do not count her sweet you know | B |
| Arms of her are rather lean | A |
| Ditto calves and feet you know | B |
| Features of Hellenic type | C |
| Are not patent here you see | D |
| Katie loves a black clay pipe | C |
| Doesn t hate her beer you see | D |
| Spartan Helen used to wear | E |
| Tresses in a plait perhaps | F |
| Kate has ochre in her hair | E |
| Nose is rather flat perhaps | F |
| Rose Lorraine s surpassing dress | G |
| Glitters at the ball you see | D |
| Daughter of the wilderness | H |
| Has no dress at all you see | D |
| - | |
| Laura s lovers every day | I |
| In sweet verse embody her | J |
| Katie s have a different way | I |
| Being frank they waddy her | J |
| Amy by her suitor kissed | K |
| Every nightfall looks for him | L |
| Kitty s sweetheart isn t missed | K |
| Kitty humps and cooks for him | L |
| - | |
| Smith and Brown and Jenkins bring | M |
| Roses to the fair you know | B |
| Darkies at their Katie fling | M |
| Hunks of native bear you know | B |
| English girls examine well | N |
| All the food they take you twig | O |
| Kate is hardly keen of smell | N |
| Kate will eat a snake you twig | O |
| - | |
| Yonder lady s sitting room | P |
| Clean and cool and dark it is | Q |
| Kitty s chamber needs no broom | P |
| Just a sheet of bark it is | Q |
| You may find a pipe or two | R |
| If you poke and grope about | S |
| Not a bit of starch or blue | R |
| Not a sign of soap about | S |
| - | |
| Girl I know reads Lalla Rookh | O |
| Poem of the heady sort | T |
| Kate is better as a cook | O |
| Of the rough and ready sort | T |
| Byron s verse on Waterloo | R |
| Makes my darling glad you see | D |
| Kate prefers a kangaroo | R |
| Which is very sad you see | D |
| - | |
| Other ladies wear a hat | U |
| Fit to write a sonnet on | V |
| Kitty has the naughty cat | U |
| Neither hat nor bonnet on | V |
| Fifty silks has Madame Tate | W |
| She who loves to spank it on | V |
| All her clothes are worn by Kate | W |
| When she has her blanket on | V |
| - | |
| Let her rip the Phrygian boy | X |
| Bolted with a brighter one | Y |
| And the girl who ruined Troy | X |
| Was a rather whiter one | Y |
| Katie s mouth is hardly Greek | O |
| Hardly like a rose it is | Q |
| Katie s nose is not antique | O |
| Not the classic nose it is | Q |
| - | |
| Dryad in the grand old day | I |
| Though she walked the woods about | S |
| Didn t smoke a penny clay | I |
| Didn t hump her goods about | S |
| Daphne by the fairy lake | O |
| Far away from din and all | Z |
| Never ate a yard of snake | O |
| Head and tail and skin and all | Z |
Henry Kendall
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