Mrs. Merdle At Home. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC BD EFEF GHGH IFFBJJ KLMLMD DL LNLN OLOL PQPR CBCB| She Discourseth of Nothing to Eat and the Cost thereof | A |
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| Why Merdle why did you bring Dinewell to day | B |
| So very though welcome so quite unexpected | C |
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| For dinner if any I'm sure I can't say | B |
| Our servants with washing are all so infected | D |
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| If any's provided 't is nothing but scraps | E |
| Of pot luck or pick up of some common fare | F |
| Or something left over from last week perhaps | E |
| Which you've brought a friend and an old one to share | F |
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| I never I'm sure now so much was ashamed | G |
| To think he'll discover what's true to the letter | H |
| We've nothing or next to't that's fit to be named | G |
| For one who is used every day to what's better | H |
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| But what can you expect if you come on a Monday | I |
| Our French cook's away too I vow and declare | F |
| But if you would see us with something to spare | F |
| Let's know when you're coming or come on a Sunday | B |
| For that of all others for churchmen or sinners | J |
| A day is for gorging with extra good dinners | J |
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| If Merdle had told me a friend would be here | K |
| A dinner I'd get up in spite of the bills | L |
| I often tell butcher he's wonderful dear | M |
| He says every calf that a butcher now kills | L |
| Will cost near as much as the price of a steer | M |
| Before all the banks in their discount expanded | D |
| And flooded the country with 'lamp black and rags ' | - |
| Which poor men has ruined and shipwrecked and stranded | D |
| On Poverty's billows and quick sands and crags | L |
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| And that is just what as our butcher explains | L |
| The dickens has played with our beef and our mutton | N |
| But something is gained for with all of his pains | L |
| The poor man won't make of himself such a glutton | N |
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| I'm sure if they knew what a sin 't is to eat | O |
| When things are all selling at extravagant prices | L |
| That poor folks more saving would be of their meat | O |
| And learn by example how little suffices | L |
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| I wish they could see for themselves what a table | P |
| What examples we set to the laboring poor | Q |
| In prudence and saving in those who are able | P |
| To live like a king and his court on a tour | R |
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| I feel I acknowledge sometimes quite dejected | C |
| To think as it happens with you here today | B |
| To drop in so sudden and quite unexpected | C |
| How poor we are living some people will say | B |
Horatio Alger, Jr.
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