A Ballad Of The Town Water Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DBEB E CF CGBG CHCH IBCB JBKB GB L LLMMN BBBBBBB| It is the Police Commissioners | A |
| All on a winter's day | B |
| And they to prove the town water | C |
| Have set themselves away | B |
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| They went to the north they went to the south | D |
| And into the west went they | B |
| Till they found a civil civil engineer | E |
| And unto him did say | B |
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| 'Now tell to us thou civil engineer | E |
| If this be fit to drink ' | - |
| And they showed him a cup of the town water | C |
| Which was as black as ink | F |
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| He took three sips of the town water | C |
| And black in the face was he | G |
| And they turned them back and fled away | B |
| Amazed that this should be | G |
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| And he has written a broad letter | C |
| And sealed it with a ring | H |
| And the letter saith that the town water | C |
| Is not a goodly thing | H |
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| And they have met and the Bailies all | I |
| And eke the Councillors | B |
| And they have ta'en the broad letter | C |
| And read it within the doors | B |
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| And there has fallen a great quarrel | J |
| And a striving within the doors | B |
| And quarrelsome words have the Bailies said | K |
| And eke the Councillors | B |
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| And one saith 'We will have other water ' | - |
| And another saith 'But nay ' | - |
| And none may tell what the end shall be | G |
| Alack and well a day | B |
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| I love the inoffensive frog | L |
| 'A little child a limber elf ' | - |
| With health and spirits all agog | L |
| He does the long jump in a bog | L |
| Or teaches men to swim and dive | M |
| If he should be cut up alive | M |
| Should I not be cut up myself | N |
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| So I intend to be straightway | B |
| An Anti Vivisectionist | B |
| I'll read Miss Cobbe five hours a day | B |
| And watch the little frogs at play | B |
| With no desire to see their hearts | B |
| At work or other inward parts | B |
| If other inward parts exist | B |
Robert Fuller Murray
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