Asparagus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEBF GHBH IJFJ KLML NBCO PQRN STUT VWXW IYZY BBZA2 SB2C2D2 ZXC2X E2F2ZF2 BSF2S IG2H2G2 XBI2B| Mr Ramsbottom went to the races | A |
| A thing as he'd ne'er done before | B |
| And as luck always follers beginners | C |
| Won five pounds no less and no more | B |
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| He felt himself suddenly tempted | D |
| To indulge in some reckless orgee | E |
| So he went to a caffy a teerer | B |
| And had a dressed crab with his tea | F |
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| He were crunching the claws at the finish | G |
| And wondering what next he would do | H |
| Then his thoughts turned to home and to Mother | B |
| And what she would say when she knew | H |
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| For Mother were dead against racing | I |
| And said as she thought 'twere a sin | J |
| For people to gamble their money | F |
| Unless they were certain to win | J |
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| These homely domestic reflections | K |
| Seemed to cast quite a gloom on Pa's day | L |
| He thought he'd best take home a present | M |
| And square up the matter that way | L |
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| ' Twere a bit ofa job to decide on | N |
| What best to select for this 'ere | B |
| So he started to look in shop winders | C |
| In hopes as he'd get some idea | O |
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| He saw some strange stuff in a fruit shop | P |
| Like leeks with their nobby ends gone | Q |
| It were done up in bundles like firewood | R |
| Said Pa to the Shopman What's yon | N |
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| That's Ass paragus what the Toffs eat | S |
| Were the answer said Pa That 'll suit | T |
| I'd best take a couple of bundles | U |
| For Mother's a bobby for fruit | T |
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| He started off home with his purchase | V |
| And pictured Ma all the next week | W |
| Eating sparagus fried with her bacon | X |
| Or mashed up in bubble and squeak | W |
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| He knew when she heard he'd been racing | I |
| She'd very nigh talk him to death | Y |
| So he thought as he'd call in the ' Local' | Z |
| To strengthen his nerve and his breath | Y |
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| He had hardly got up to the counter | B |
| When a friend of his walked in the bar | B |
| He said What ye got in the bundle | Z |
| A present for Mother said Pa | A2 |
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| It's 'sparagus stuff what the Toffs eat | S |
| His friend said It's a rum looking plant | B2 |
| Can I have the green ends for my rabbits | C2 |
| said Pa Aye cut off what you want | D2 |
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| He cut all the tips off one bundle | Z |
| Then some more friends arrived one by one | X |
| And all of them seemed to keep rabbits | C2 |
| Pa had no green ends left when they'd done | X |
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| When he got home the 'ouse were in dark ness | E2 |
| So he slipped in as sly as a fox | F2 |
| Laid the 'sparagus on kitchen table | Z |
| And crept up to bed in his socks | F2 |
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| He got in without waking Mother | B |
| A truly remarkable feat | S |
| And pictured her telling the neighbours | F2 |
| As 'twere 'sparagus what the toffs eat | S |
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| But when he woke up in the morning | I |
| It were nigh on a quarter to ten | G2 |
| There were no signs of Mother or breakfast | H2 |
| Said Pa What's she done with her sen | G2 |
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| He shouted What's up theer in t' kitchen | X |
| She replied You do well to enquire | B |
| Them bundles of chips as you brought home | I2 |
| Is so damp I can't light the fire | B |
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