How Deacon Fry Bought A Duchess Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGF HIJIKLML NOPQRDFD FJSJTUF VVFVFVPV PWXWYWZW A2LB2LVVFV LFLFWVWV C2LC2LVC2VC2 WVD2VLVLV| It sorter skeer'd the neighbours round | A |
| For of all the 'tarnal set thet clutches | B |
| Their dollars firm he wus the boss | C |
| An' yet he went and byed a Duchess | D |
| I never will forget the day | E |
| He druv her from the city market | F |
| I guess thar warn't more'n two | G |
| Thet stayed to hum thet day in Clarket | F |
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| And one of them wus Gran'pa Finch | H |
| Who's bed rid up to Spense's attic | I |
| The other Aunt Mehitabel | J |
| Whose jints and temper is rheumatic | I |
| She said she guessed that Deacon Fry | K |
| Would some day see he'd done more fitter | L |
| To send his dollars savin' souls | M |
| Than waste 'em on a horn'd critter | L |
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| We all turn'd out at Pewse's store | N |
| The last one jest inside the village | O |
| The Jedge he even chanc'd along | P |
| And so did good old Elder Millage | Q |
| We sot around on kegs and planks | R |
| And on the fence we loung'd precarious | D |
| The Elder felt to speak a word | F |
| And sed his thoughts wus very various | D |
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| He sed the Deacon call'd to mind | F |
| The blessed patriarchs and their cattle | J |
| To whose herds cum a great increase | S |
| When they in furrin parts did settle | J |
| We nodded all our skulls at this | T |
| But Argue Bill he rapped his crutches | U |
| Sed he I guess they never paid | F |
| Five hundred dollars for a 'Duchess ' | - |
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| Bill and the Elder allers froze | V |
| To subjects sorter disputatious | V |
| So on the 'lasses keg they sot | F |
| And had an argue fair and spacious | V |
| Good land when Solon cum in sight | F |
| By lawyer Smithett's row o' beeches | V |
| His black span seemed to crawl along | P |
| Ez slow ez Dr Jones's leeches | V |
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| Sez Sister Fry who was along | P |
| I sorter think my specs is muggy | W |
| But Solon started out from hum | X |
| This mornin' in the new top buggy | W |
| Jeddiah rid old chestnut Jim | Y |
| An' Sammy rid the roan filly | W |
| I told 'em when they started off | Z |
| It looked redikless soft and silly | W |
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| To see three able bodied men | A2 |
| An' four stout horses drive one critter | L |
| O land o' song will some one look | B2 |
| From hed to foot I'm in a twitter | L |
| Wal up we swarm'd on Pewse's fence | V |
| And Bill he histed on his crutches | V |
| We all was curus to behold | F |
| The Deac's five hundred dollar Duchess | V |
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| I've heerd filosofurs declar | L |
| This life be's kind o' snarly jinted | F |
| And every human standin' thar | L |
| Felt sorter gin'ral disappointed | F |
| What sort o' crazy animile | W |
| Hed got the Deacon in its clutches | V |
| They cum along in spankin' style | W |
| Old Solon and his sons and Duchess | V |
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| Her heels wus up her hed wus down | C2 |
| An or'nary cross gritted critter | L |
| As ever browsed around the town | C2 |
| And kept the women folks a twitter | L |
| A boostin' up the garding rails | V |
| And browsin' on the factory bleachin' | C2 |
| And kickin' up the milkin' pails | V |
| Bill he riz up ez true ez preachin' | C2 |
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| Sez he excited like I'll 'low | W |
| To swaller both these here old crutches | V |
| Ef thet ain't Farmer Slyby's cow | D2 |
| Old Bossie turn'd inter a Duchess | V |
| Wal 'twus k'rect The Deacon swore | L |
| Some hefty swars and sot the clutches | V |
| Of law to work but seed no more | L |
| The chap thet sold him thet thar Duchess | V |
Isabella Valancy Crawford
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