The Dinner Table Talk. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEFGCGC| Now soup if you like made of beef very nice | A |
| You'll find this the next thing to the height of perfection | B |
| And eaten with ketchup or thickened with rice | A |
| Will suit you I know if this is your selection | B |
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| My own disposition to this one inclines | C |
| But dreadful dyspepsia destroys all the pleasure | D |
| Of dinner except it's well tinctured with wines | C |
| Which plan I adopt as a health giving measure | D |
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| A table well ordered well furnished and neat | E |
| No wonder our nature for ever is tempting | F |
| And I'd like to know if Mahomet could beat | E |
| Its pleasures dyspepsia for ever exempting | F |
| With all that he promised in paradise gained | G |
| With Houris attendant in place of the churls | C |
| With which we are worried tormented and pained | G |
| The colored men servants or green Irish girls | C |
Horatio Alger, Jr.
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