Albert And His Savings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DDDD EFCF EGHG DIDI JKDK BLLL DMBM BNON PBCB JBDB BDLD ALDL ADAD EEBE| One day little Albert Ramsbottom | A |
| To see 'ow much money 'e'd got | B |
| Stuck a knife in 'is money box slot 'ole | C |
| And fiddled and fished out the lot | B |
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| It amounted to fifteen and fourpence | D |
| Which 'e found by a few simple sums | D |
| Were ninety two tuppenny ices | D |
| Or twice that in penn'orths of gums | D |
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| The sound of the chinkin' of money | E |
| Soon brought father's 'ead round the door | F |
| He said Whats that there on the table | C |
| Albert said it were Fifteen and four | F |
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| You're not going to spend all that money | E |
| Said Pa in an admonitory tone | G |
| On toffee an' things for your stomach | H |
| Said Mother Why not it's his own | G |
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| Said Pa Nay with that fifteen shillings | D |
| We'll buy National Savings and then | I |
| In five years we'll have seventeen and six | D |
| And one pound and sixpence in ten | I |
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| Young Albert weren't what you'd call eager | J |
| He saw his sweet dreams fade away | K |
| Ma said Let 'im 'ave the odd fourpence | D |
| Pa lovingly answered Nay nay | K |
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| It's our duty in crisis what's 'appened | B |
| For every child woman and man | L |
| To strain every muscle and sinew | L |
| To raise every penny we can | L |
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| He said Even this little fourpence | D |
| Might help us the Germans to drub | M |
| Then 'e dropped the four coins in 'is pocket | B |
| And made for the neighbouring pub | M |
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| These words stirred the 'eart of young Albert | B |
| He made up 'is mind then and there | N |
| To take up 'is part in the straining | O |
| And sell everything 'e could spare | N |
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| So off 'e went down to the junk shop | P |
| With some toys and a flashlamp he'd got | B |
| And the stick with the 'orses 'ead 'andle | C |
| He received half a crown for the lot | B |
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| He went off to the Post Office counter | J |
| Where National Savings was bought | B |
| But found that they cost fifteen shillings | D |
| Which meant he were twelve and six short | B |
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| The little lad wasn't down 'earted | B |
| He went off without wastin' words | D |
| And sold 'is dad's smoking companion | L |
| And 'is Mother's glass case of stuffed birds | D |
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| At the Post Office counter they gave 'im | A |
| A certificate all crisp and clean | L |
| Then back 'e went 'ome to his parents | D |
| To say what a good boy he'd been | L |
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| They didn't 'alf shout when he told 'em | A |
| By Gumm but 'e were in the wars | D |
| But at finish they 'ad to forgive 'im | A |
| It were all done in such a grand cause | D |
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| There's a moral of course to this story | E |
| That's pointing to you and to me | E |
| Let's all be young Alberts and tend | B |
| To defend the right to be free | E |
Marriott Edgar
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