The Clean Plater Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGGGGGHIHIEJE JIIIKKIIILMLNIOIPIII IIIQIQQIQIIIIIIII| Some singers sing of ladies' eyes | A |
| And some of ladies lips | B |
| Refined ones praise their ladylike ways | C |
| And course ones hymn their hips | B |
| The Oxford Book of English Verse | D |
| Is lush with lyrics tender | E |
| A poet I guess is more or less | F |
| Preoccupied with gender | E |
| Yet I though custom call me crude | G |
| Prefer to sing in praise of food | G |
| Food | G |
| Yes food | G |
| Just any old kind of food | G |
| Pheasant is pleasant of course | H |
| And terrapin too is tasty | I |
| Lobster I freely endorse | H |
| In pate or patty or pasty | I |
| But there's nothing the matter with butter | E |
| And nothing the matter with jam | J |
| And the warmest greetings I utter | E |
| To the ham and the yam and the clam | J |
| For they're food | I |
| All food | I |
| And I think very fondly of food | I |
| Through I'm broody at times | K |
| When bothered by rhymes | K |
| I brood | I |
| On food | I |
| Some painters paint the sapphire sea | I |
| And some the gathering storm | L |
| Others portray young lambs at play | M |
| But most the female form | L |
| Twas trite in that primeval dawn | N |
| When painting got its start | I |
| That a lady with her garments on | O |
| Is Life but is she Art | I |
| By undraped nymphs | P |
| I am not wooed | I |
| I'd rather painters painted food | I |
| Food | I |
| Just food | I |
| Just any old kind of food | I |
| Go purloin a sirloin my pet | I |
| If you'd win a devotion incredible | Q |
| And asparagus tips vinaigrette | I |
| Or anything else that is edible | Q |
| Bring salad or sausage or scrapple | Q |
| A berry or even a beet | I |
| Bring an oyster an egg or an apple | Q |
| As long as it's something to eat | I |
| If it's food | I |
| It's food | I |
| Never mind what kind of food | I |
| When I ponder my mind | I |
| I consistently find | I |
| It is glued | I |
| On food | I |
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