Florist And Pig Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEEFFGG HHIIJJFFHH CC CC HHHH| A florist wit had run a rig | A |
| Had set his fancy on a pig | A |
| Which followed master like a dog | B |
| And petted was although a hog | C |
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| The master thus addressed the swine | D |
| My house and garden both be thine | D |
| Feast on potatoes as you please | E |
| And riot 'midst the beans and peas | E |
| Turnips and carrots pig devour | F |
| And broccoli and cauliflower | F |
| But spare my tulips my delight | G |
| By which I fascinate my sight | G |
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| But Master Pig next morning roamed | H |
| Where sweet wort in the coolers foamed | H |
| He sucked his fill then munched some grains | I |
| And whilst inebriated gains | I |
| The garden for some cooling fruits | J |
| And delved his snout for tulip roots | J |
| He did I tell you much disaster | F |
| So thought at any rate his master | F |
| My sole my only charge forgot | H |
| You drunken and ungrateful sot | H |
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| Drunken yourself said Piggy wiggy | C |
| I ate the roots not flowers you priggy | C |
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| The florist hit the pig a peg | C |
| And piggy turned and tore his leg | C |
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| Fool that I was the florist said | H |
| To let that hog come near my bed | H |
| Who cherishes a brutal mate | H |
| Will mourn the folly soon or late | H |
John Gay
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