Bless 'em! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCBC DEDA FBFB DGDG BBBB| O the lasses the lasses God bless 'em | A |
| His heart must be hard as a stooan | B |
| 'At could willingly goa an distress 'em | A |
| For withaat 'em man's lot 'ud be looan | B |
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| Tho' th' pooasies i' paradise growin | B |
| For Adam wor scented soa sweet | C |
| He ne'er thank'd 'em for odour bestowin | B |
| He trampled 'em under his feet | C |
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| He long'd to some sweet one to whisper | D |
| An wol sleepin Eve came to his home | E |
| He wakken'd an saw her an kuss'd her | D |
| An ne'er ax'd her a word ha shoo'd come | A |
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| An tho' shoo like her sex discontented | F |
| An anxious fowk's saycrets to know | B |
| Pluck'd an apple noa daat shoo repented | F |
| When shoo saw at it made sich a row | B |
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| Tho' aw know shoo did wrang aw forgie her | D |
| For aw'm fairly convinced an declare | G |
| 'At aw'd rayther ha sin an be wi' her | D |
| Nor all th' world an noa woman to share | G |
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| Then let us be kind to all th' wimmin | B |
| Throo th' poorest to th' Queen up oth' throne | B |
| For if Eve like they sometimes goa sinnin | B |
| It's moor for th' chaps' sakes nor ther own | B |
John Hartley
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