Modest Jack O' Wibsey Slack Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHIH DJDJKLKL MNONPGPG QRQQSQSQ TBTBUBQB| At Wibsey Slack lived modest Jack | A |
| No daat yo knew him weel | B |
| His cheeks wor red his een wor black | A |
| His limbs wor strong as steel | B |
| His curly hair wor black as jet | C |
| His spirits gay an glad | D |
| An monny a lass her heart had set | C |
| On Jack the Wibsey lad | D |
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| Sal Simmons kept a little shop | E |
| An bacca seld an spice | F |
| An traitle drink an ginger pop | E |
| An other things as nice | F |
| Shoo wor a widow fat an fair | G |
| An allus neat an trim | H |
| An Jack seem'd fairly stuck on her | I |
| An shoo wor sweet on him | H |
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| But other lasses thowt they had | D |
| A claim on Jack's regard | J |
| A widow to win sich a lad | D |
| They thowt wor very hard | J |
| They called her a designin jade | K |
| An one an all cried Shame | L |
| But Sally kept on wi her trade | K |
| An Jack went just the same | L |
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| One neet when commin hooam throo wark | M |
| They stopt him on his way | N |
| An pluckt up courage as 't wor dark | O |
| To say what they'd to say | N |
| They sed they thowt a widow should | P |
| Let lasses have a share | G |
| An net get ivvery man shoo could | P |
| They didn't think it fair | G |
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| Jack felt his heart goa pit a pat | Q |
| His face wor burnin red | R |
| His heart wor touched noa daat o' that | Q |
| But this wor what he sed | Q |
| Awd like to wed yo ivvery one | S |
| An but for th' law aw wod | Q |
| But weel yo know if th' job wor done | S |
| They'd put me into quod | Q |
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| As aw can mak but one mi wife | T |
| Sal Simmons suits me weel | B |
| For aw wor ne'er wed i' mi life | T |
| An dooan't know ha awst feel | B |
| But if aw wed a widow an | U |
| Aw fail mi pairt to play | B |
| Shoo'll varry likely understand | Q |
| An put me into th' way | B |
John Hartley
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