Contrasts. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCB DEDFGGGF HHHIHHHI JJJHHHHH HHHKAAAK| If yo've a fancy for a spree | A |
| Goa up to Lundun same as me | A |
| Yo'll find ther's lots o' things to see | A |
| To pleeas yo weel | B |
| If seem isn't quite enuff | C |
| Yo needn't tew an waste yor puff | C |
| To find some awkard sooarts o' stuff | C |
| At yo can feel | B |
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| Yo'll nobbut need to set yor shoe | D |
| On some poleeceman's tender toa | E |
| A varry simple thing to do | D |
| An wi a crack | F |
| Enuff to mak a deead man jump | G |
| Daan comes his staff an leeaves a lump | G |
| An then he'll fling yo wi a bump | G |
| Flat o' yor back | F |
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| If signs o' riches suit yo best | H |
| Yer een can easily be blest | H |
| Or if yo seek for fowk distrest | H |
| They're easy fun | I |
| Wi faces ommost worn to nowt | H |
| An clooas at arn't worth a thowt | H |
| Yet show ha long wi want they've fowt | H |
| Till fairly done | I |
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| Like a big ball it rolls along | J |
| A nivver ending changing throng | J |
| Mixt up together waik an strong | J |
| An gooid an bad | H |
| Virtues an vices side bi side | H |
| Poverty slinkin after pride | H |
| Wealth's waste an want at's hard to bide | H |
| Some gay some sad | H |
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| It ommost maks one have a daat | H |
| To see some strut some crawl abaat | H |
| One in a robe one in a claat | H |
| If all's just square | K |
| It may be better soa to be | A |
| But to a simpleton like me | A |
| It's hard to mak sich things agree | A |
| It isn't fair | K |
John Hartley
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