Fit The Third - The Baker's Tale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGF HICI JCKC LDLD MNON PQP RSRS TMTM UVUV WXWX CNVN TYTY| They roused him with muffins they roused him with ice | A |
| They roused him with mustard and cress | B |
| They roused him with jam and judicious advice | A |
| They set him conundrums to guess | B |
| When at length he sat up and was able to speak | C |
| His sad story he offered to tell | D |
| And the Bellman cried Silence Not even a shriek | C |
| And excitedly tingled his bell | D |
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| There was silence supreme Not a shriek not a scream | E |
| Scarcely even a howl or a groan | F |
| As the man they called Ho told his story of woe | G |
| In an antediluvian tone | F |
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| My father and mother were honest though poor | H |
| Skip all that cried the Bellman in haste | I |
| If it once becomes dark there's no chance of a Snark | C |
| We have hardly a minute to waste | I |
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| I skip forty years said the Baker in tears | J |
| And proceed without further remark | C |
| To the day when you took me aboard of your ship | K |
| To help you in hunting the Snark | C |
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| A dear uncle of mine after whom I was named | L |
| Remarked when I bade him farewell | D |
| Oh skip your dear uncle the Bellman exclaimed | L |
| As he angrily tingled his bell | D |
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| He remarked to me then said that mildest of men | M |
| 'If your Snark be a Snark that is right | N |
| Fetch it home by all means you may serve it with greens | O |
| And it's handy for striking a light | N |
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| 'You may seek it with thimbles and seek it with care | P |
| You may hunt it with forks and hope | Q |
| You may threaten its life with a railway share | P |
| You may charm it with smiles and soap ' | - |
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| That's exactly the method the Bellman bold | R |
| In a hasty parenthesis cried | S |
| That's exactly the way I have always been told | R |
| That the capture of Snarks should be tried | S |
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| 'But oh beamish nephew beware of the day | T |
| If your Snark be a Boojum For then | M |
| You will softly and suddenly vanish away | T |
| And never be met with again | M |
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| It is this it is this that oppresses my soul | U |
| When I think of my uncle's last words | V |
| And my heart is like nothing so much as a bowl | U |
| Brimming over with quivering curds | V |
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| It is this it is this We have had that before | W |
| The Bellman indignantly said | X |
| And the Baker replied Let me say it once more | W |
| It is this it is this that I dread | X |
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| I engage with the Snark every night after dark | C |
| In a dreamy delirious fight | N |
| I serve it with greens in those shadowy scenes | V |
| And I use it for striking a light | N |
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| But if ever I meet with a Boojum that day | T |
| In a moment of this I am sure | Y |
| I shall softly and suddenly vanish away | T |
| And the notion I cannot endure | Y |
Lewis Carroll
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