Market Women-s Cries Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCCDDEFGG H IIIJJDDKKLLMJJM N OOOPPQQRR| APPLES | A |
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| COME buy my fine wares | B |
| Plums apples and pears | B |
| A hundred a penny | C |
| In conscience too many | C |
| Come will you have any | C |
| My children are seven | D |
| I wish them in Heaven | D |
| My husband s a sot | E |
| With his pipe and his pot | F |
| Not a farthen will gain them | G |
| And I must maintain them | G |
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| ONIONS | H |
| - | |
| Come follow me by the smell | I |
| Here are delicate onions to sell | I |
| I promise to use you well | I |
| They make the blood warmer | J |
| You ll feed like a farmer | J |
| For this is every cook s opinion | D |
| No savoury dish without an onion | D |
| But lest your kissing should be spoiled | K |
| Your onions must be thoroughly boiled | K |
| Or else you may spare | L |
| Your mistress a share | L |
| The secret will never be known | M |
| She cannot discover | J |
| The breath of her lover | J |
| But think it as sweet as her own | M |
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| HERRINGS | N |
| - | |
| Be not sparing | O |
| Leave off swearing | O |
| Buy my herring | O |
| Fresh from Malahide | P |
| Better never was tried | P |
| Come eat them with pure fresh butter and mustard | Q |
| Their bellies are soft and as white as a custard | Q |
| Come sixpence a dozen to get me some bread | R |
| Or like my own herrings I soon shall be dead | R |
Jonathan Swift
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