A Tenant Of Mrs. Van Kleeck Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBAACCDD EEFFGGHHIIJJKKLLMN| Translation of a letter from a tenant of Mrs Van Kleeck to that lady dated January | A |
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| My very good landlady Mistress Van Kleeck | B |
| For the tears that o'erwhelm me I scarcely can speak | B |
| I know that I promis'd you hogs two or three | A |
| But who knows his destiny Certain not me | A |
| That I promis'd three hogs I don't mean to deny | C |
| I can prove that I had five or six upon sty | C |
| Three hogs did I say Three sows I say then | D |
| 'Pon honour I ne'er had a male upon pen | D |
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| Well Madam the long and the short of the clatter | E |
| For mumbling mincing will not better the matter | E |
| And murder and truth my dear mammy wd say | F |
| By some means or other forever saw day | F |
| And Daddy himself as we chop'd in the wood | G |
| Would often observe that lying wasn't good | G |
| Tell truth my sweet fellow no matter who feels it | H |
| It ne'er can do hurt to the man who reveals it | H |
| But stop While my Daddy and Mammy's the subject | I |
| I am running aside the original object | I |
| The sows my sweet madam the sows I repeat | J |
| Which you and your household expected to eat | J |
| Instead of attending their corn and their swill | K |
| Gave way to an ugly he sow's wicked will | K |
| When 'twill end your good ladyship need not be told | L |
| For Nature is still as she hath been of old | L |
| And when he cries YES mortal may not cry NO | M |
| So Madam farewell with my holliday bow | N |
Henry Livingston Jr.
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