The Ballad Of Morbid Mothers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFGHIH C CFCFJCJC HKHKHLHL| Why do you sit in the churchyard weeping | A |
| Why do you cling to the dear old graves | B |
| When the dim drear mists of the dusk are creeping | A |
| Out of the marshes in wan white waves | B |
| Darling I know you're a slave to sorrow | C |
| Dearie I know that the world is cruel | D |
| But you'll be in bed with a cold to morrow | C |
| I shall be running upstairs with gruel | E |
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| Why do you weep on a tombstone Mammy | F |
| Sobbing alone in the drizzling sleet | G |
| When the chill mists rise and the wind strikes clammy | F |
| Think of your bones and your poor old feet | G |
| Darling I know that you feel lugubrious | H |
| Dearie I know you must work this off | I |
| But graveyards are not as a rule salubrious | H |
| Whence the expression a 'churchyard cough ' | - |
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| The Old Lady explains her eccentric behaviour | C |
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| Why do I ululate dear my dearie | C |
| Coiled on a nastily mildewed tomb | F |
| When the horned owl hoots and the world is weary | C |
| Weary of sorrow and swamped in gloom | F |
| Childie my child 'tis a cogent question | J |
| Dearie my dear if you wish to know | C |
| Tis not that I suffer from indigestion | J |
| But that the Public ordains it so | C |
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| Babies and Aunties and dying brothers | H |
| Boom for a season as 'loves' may part | K |
| But the old shop ballad of Morbid Mothers | H |
| Dives to the depths of the Public's heart | K |
| Dearie with booms at the best precarious | H |
| All but the permanent needs must fail | L |
| And Childie if Mammy became hilarious | H |
| Mammy would never command a sale | L |
John Kendall (dum-dum)
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