The Toy-maker Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAB CDCE FFFE GGGH IIIJ EKLK MMMB FFFN| I AM the Toy maker I have brought from the town | A |
| As much in my plack as should fetch a whole crown | A |
| I'll array for you now my stock of renown | A |
| And man's the raree will show you | B |
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| Here's a horse that is rearing to bound through the smoke | C |
| Of cannon and musket and face to that ruck | D |
| The horseman with sword ready held for the stroke | C |
| Lord Lucan maybe or Prince Charlie | E |
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| An old woman sitting and waiting for call | F |
| With her baskets of cockles and apples and all | F |
| A one legged sailor attending a ball | F |
| And a tailor and nailer busy | E |
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| Or would you have these A goose ganging by | G |
| With head up in challenge to all who come nigh | G |
| A cock with a comb dangling over his eye | G |
| And a hen on a clutch nicely sitting | H |
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| Or a duck that is chasing a quick thing around | I |
| Or a crow that is taking three hops on the ground | I |
| Or an ass with head down he is held in a pound | I |
| Or a fox with his tail curled around him | J |
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| A ship made of shells that have sheen of the sea | E |
| All ready to sail for black Barbarie | K |
| The Lowlands of Holland or High Germanic | L |
| And who'll be the one that will steer her | K |
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| I'll speak of my trade there's a day beyond day | M |
| When the hound needn't hunt and the priest needn't pray | M |
| And the clerk needn't write and the hen needn't lay | M |
| Whence come all the things that I show you | B |
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| I am the Toy maker upon the town wall | F |
| My crib is high up I have down look on all | F |
| And coach and wheelbarrow I carve in my stall | F |
| Making things with no troubles in them | N |
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