Mrs. Merdle Goes To Market Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EF E| With prices outrageous they charge now for meat | A |
| And servants so worthless are every day growing | B |
| I wonder we get half enough now to eat | A |
| And shouldn't if 't want for the fact of my going | B |
| To market to cheapen potatoes and beef | C |
| And talk to the butchers about their abuses | D |
| And listen to stories beyond our belief | C |
| They tell while they cheat us by way of excuses | D |
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| And grocers do tell us is 't legal to charge | E |
| Such prices for sugar and butter and flour | F |
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| Oh why don't the Mayor in his wisdom enlarge | E |
| Both weight and measure as he does 'doubtful power ' | - |
Horatio Alger, Jr.
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