Mrs. Merdle Discourseth Of Hygiene And Fish Sauce. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDEFF GH H I IJ KAKA| But this is concocted by rules so complete | A |
| Though piquant is healthy and easy digested | B |
| And if you will note it as slowly we eat | A |
| The contents I'll give for our friends interested | C |
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| Imprimus in fish stock an onion we stew | D |
| And anchovy essence two spoonfuls we add | E |
| With butter horse radish and lemons a few | D |
| Mushrooms too in ketchup is not very bad | E |
| And pickle of walnuts with onions chopped fine | F |
| To which there is added some old sherry wine | F |
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| My doctor so queer when I suffer distress | G |
| Inquires what I've latterly foolishly eaten | H |
| And swears that to swallow this 'horrible mess ' | - |
| Would entitle a dog like a dog to be beaten | H |
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| But la such a doctor knows nothing of women's complaints | I |
| And talks Latin nonsense about 'regular diet ' | - |
| And thinks that us mortals should live more like saints | I |
| On moonshine and nonsense of a heavenly quiet | J |
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| He says that a woman of my plaint complaining | K |
| If she was a woman at all half discreet | A |
| Would shudder to think every day she is maiming | K |
| Her stomach with trash and such stuff as we eat | A |
Horatio Alger, Jr.
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