The Waster Singing At Midnight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDEF GGHH IICC BBHH JJKK| After Longfellow | A |
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| Loud he sang the song Ta Phershon | B |
| For his personal diversion | B |
| Sang the chorus U pi dee | C |
| Sang about the Barley Bree | C |
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| In that hour when all is quiet | D |
| Sang he songs of noise and riot | D |
| In a voice so loud and queer | E |
| That I wakened up to hear | F |
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| Songs that distantly resembled | G |
| Those one hears from men assembled | G |
| In the old Cross Keys Hotel | H |
| Only sung not half so well | H |
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| For the time of this ecstatic | I |
| Amateur was most erratic | I |
| And he only hit the key | C |
| Once in every melody | C |
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| If he wot prigs wot isn't his'n | B |
| Ven he's cotched is sent to prison | B |
| He who murders sleep might well | H |
| Adorn a solitary cell | H |
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| But if no obliging peeler | J |
| Will arrest this midnight squealer | J |
| My own peculiar arm of might | K |
| Must undertake the job to night | K |
Robert Fuller Murray
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