Verses Made For Fruit-women Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCCDDEFGG H HHHID H JJJKKDDLLMMNKKN H OOPPKKQQRRSSTTKK H IIIUUVVWW

APPLESA
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Come buy my fine waresB
Plums apples and pearsB
A hundred a pennyC
In conscience too manyC
Come will you have anyC
My children are sevenD
I wish them in HeavenD
My husband a sotE
With his pipe and his potF
Not a farthing will gain themG
And I must maintain themG
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ASPARAGUSH
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Ripe 'sparagrassH
Fit for lad or lassH
To make their water passH
O 'tis pretty pickingI
With a tender chickenD
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ONIONSH
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Come follow me by the smellJ
Here are delicate onions to sellJ
I promise to use you wellJ
They make the blood warmerK
You'll feed like a farmerK
For this is every cook's opinionD
No savoury dish without an onionD
But lest your kissing should be spoil'dL
Your onions must be thoroughly boil'dL
Or else you may spareM
Your mistress a shareM
The secret will never be knownN
She cannot discoverK
The breath of her loverK
But think it as sweet as her ownN
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OYSTERSH
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Charming oysters I cryO
My masters come buyO
So plump and so freshP
So sweet is their fleshP
No Colchester oysterK
Is sweeter and moisterK
Your stomach they settleQ
And rouse up your mettleQ
They'll make you a dadR
Of a lass or a ladR
And madam your wifeS
They'll please to the lifeS
Be she barren be she oldT
Be she slut or be she scoldT
Eat my oysters and lie near herK
She'll be fruitful never fear herK
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HERRINGSH
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Be not sparingI
Leave off swearingI
Buy my herringI
Fresh from MalahideU
Better never was triedU
Come eat them with pure fresh butter and mustardV
Their bellies are soft and as white as a custardV
Come sixpence a dozen to get me some breadW
Or like my own herrings I soon shall be deadW

Jonathan Swift



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