Will Wood's Petition To The People Of Ireland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDDC EEFGGF HHIJJI KKLMML KKNKKN KKCOOC NNKNNK JJCNNC| BEING AN EXCELLENT NEW SONG SUPPOSED TO BE MADE AND SUNG IN THE STREETS OF DUBLIN BY WILLIAM WOOD IRONMONGER AND HALFPENNY MONGER | A |
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| My dear Irish folks | B |
| Come leave off your jokes | B |
| And buy up my halfpence so fine | C |
| So fair and so bright | D |
| They'll give you delight | D |
| Observe how they glisten and shine | C |
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| They'll sell to my grief | E |
| As cheap as neck beef | E |
| For counters at cards to your wife | F |
| And every day | G |
| Your children may play | G |
| Span farthing or toss on the knife | F |
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| Come hither and try | H |
| I'll teach you to buy | H |
| A pot of good ale for a farthing | I |
| Come threepence a score | J |
| I ask you no more | J |
| And a fig for the Drapier and Harding | I |
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| When tradesmen have gold | K |
| The thief will be bold | K |
| By day and by night for to rob him | L |
| My copper is such | M |
| No robber will touch | M |
| And so you may daintily bob him | L |
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| The little blackguard | K |
| Who gets very hard | K |
| His halfpence for cleaning your shoes | N |
| When his pockets are cramm'd | K |
| With mine and be d d | K |
| He may swear he has nothing to lose | N |
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| Here's halfpence in plenty | K |
| For one you'll have twenty | K |
| Though thousands are not worth a pudden | C |
| Your neighbours will think | O |
| When your pocket cries chink | O |
| You are grown plaguy rich on a sudden | C |
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| You will be my thankers | N |
| I'll make you my bankers | N |
| As good as Ben Burton or Fade | K |
| For nothing shall pass | N |
| But my pretty brass | N |
| And then you'll be all of a trade | K |
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| I'm a son of a whore | J |
| If I have a word more | J |
| To say in this wretched condition | C |
| If my coin will not pass | N |
| I must die like an ass | N |
| And so I conclude my petition | C |
Jonathan Swift
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