Verses Made For Fruit-women Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCCDDEFGG H HHHID H JJJKKDDLLMMNKKN H OOPPKKQQRRSSTTKK H IIIUUVVWWAPPLES | 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 a sot | E |
With his pipe and his pot | F |
Not a farthing will gain them | G |
And I must maintain them | G |
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ASPARAGUS | H |
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Ripe 'sparagrass | H |
Fit for lad or lass | H |
To make their water pass | H |
O 'tis pretty picking | I |
With a tender chicken | D |
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ONIONS | H |
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Come follow me by the smell | J |
Here are delicate onions to sell | J |
I promise to use you well | J |
They make the blood warmer | K |
You'll feed like a farmer | K |
For this is every cook's opinion | D |
No savoury dish without an onion | D |
But lest your kissing should be spoil'd | L |
Your onions must be thoroughly boil'd | L |
Or else you may spare | M |
Your mistress a share | M |
The secret will never be known | N |
She cannot discover | K |
The breath of her lover | K |
But think it as sweet as her own | N |
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OYSTERS | H |
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Charming oysters I cry | O |
My masters come buy | O |
So plump and so fresh | P |
So sweet is their flesh | P |
No Colchester oyster | K |
Is sweeter and moister | K |
Your stomach they settle | Q |
And rouse up your mettle | Q |
They'll make you a dad | R |
Of a lass or a lad | R |
And madam your wife | S |
They'll please to the life | S |
Be she barren be she old | T |
Be she slut or be she scold | T |
Eat my oysters and lie near her | K |
She'll be fruitful never fear her | K |
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HERRINGS | H |
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Be not sparing | I |
Leave off swearing | I |
Buy my herring | I |
Fresh from Malahide | U |
Better never was tried | U |
Come eat them with pure fresh butter and mustard | V |
Their bellies are soft and as white as a custard | V |
Come sixpence a dozen to get me some bread | W |
Or like my own herrings I soon shall be dead | W |
Jonathan Swift
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