After London Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCBD EFEF GHGI JKJK LMLM| London Bridge is broken down | A |
| Green is the grass on Ludgate Hill | B |
| I know a farmer in Camden Town | A |
| Killed a brock by Pentonville | B |
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| I have heard my grandam tell | B |
| How some thousand years ago | C |
| Houses stretched from Camberwell | B |
| Right to Highbury and Bow | D |
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| Down by Shadwell's golden meads | E |
| Tall ships' masts would stand as thick | F |
| As the pretty tufted reeds | E |
| That the Wapping children pick | F |
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| All the kings from end to end | G |
| Of all the world paid tribute then | H |
| And meekly on their knees would bend | G |
| To the King of the Englishmen | I |
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| Thinks I while I dig my plot | J |
| What if your grandam's tales be true | K |
| Thinks I be they true or not | J |
| What's the odds to a fool like you | K |
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| Thinks I while I smoke my pipe | L |
| Here beside the tumbling Fleet | M |
| Apples drop when they are ripe | L |
| And when they drop are they most sweet | M |
J. D. C. Fellow
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