Nothing To Eat. The Argument Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GBGB| Though famine prevails not at all in the city | A |
| Though none of starvation have died in the street | B |
| Yet many there are now exciting our pity | A |
| Who're daily complaining of nothing to eat | B |
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| The every day cry and the every day fare | C |
| That's every day heard where the Livewells are dining | D |
| Is nothing to eat or else nothing to wear | C |
| Which naked and starving rich Merdles are whining | D |
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| There's Kitty Malone Mrs Merdle 'tis now | E |
| Was ever on earth here before such a sinner | F |
| Protesting excusing and swearing a vow | E |
| She'd nothing worth eating to give us for dinner | F |
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| Why Kitty if starving for want of a meal | G |
| And had'nt a cent in the world to buy meat | B |
| You wouldn't exclaim with a more pious zeal | G |
| I'm dying of hunger we've nothing to eat | B |
Horatio Alger, Jr.
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