Song From 'she Stoops To Conquer' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCCD EDEDCFCFD GHGHICICD| Let school masters puzzle their brain | A |
| With grammar and nonsense and learning | B |
| Good liquor I stoutly maintain | A |
| Gives 'genus' a better discerning | B |
| Let them brag of their heathenish gods | C |
| Their Lethes their Styxes and Stygians | C |
| Their Quis and their Quaes and their Quods | C |
| They're all but a parcel of Pigeons | C |
| Toroddle toroddle toroll | D |
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| When Methodist preachers come down | E |
| A preaching that drinking is sinful | D |
| I'll wager the rascals a crown | E |
| They always preach best with a skinful | D |
| But when you come down with your pence | C |
| For a slice of their scurvy religion | F |
| I'll leave it to all men of sense | C |
| But you my good friend are the pigeon | F |
| Toroddle toroddle toroll | D |
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| Then come put the jorum about | G |
| And let us be merry and clever | H |
| Our hearts and our liquors are stout | G |
| Here's the Three Jolly Pigeons for ever | H |
| Let some cry up woodcock or hare | I |
| Your bustards your ducks and your widgeons | C |
| But of all the birds in the air | I |
| Here's a health to the Three Jolly Pigeons | C |
| Toroddle toroddle toroll | D |
Oliver Goldsmith
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