An Epicure Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDCDC EFEFGHGI ACACFAFA| Should you preserve white mice in honey | A |
| Don't use imported ones from China | B |
| For though they cost you less in money | A |
| You'll find the Japanese ones finer | C |
| But if Chinese stuff them with spice | D |
| Which certainly improves their savour | C |
| And though the Canton mice are nice | D |
| The Pekinese have finer flavour | C |
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| If you should pickle bracken shoots | E |
| The way the wily Japanese do | F |
| Be sure to pluck then young what suits | E |
| Our Eastern taste may fail to please you | F |
| And as for nettles cook them well | G |
| To eat them raw may give you skin itch | H |
| But if you boil them for a spell | G |
| They taste almost as good as spinach | I |
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| So Reader if you chance to be | A |
| Of Oriental food a lover | C |
| And care to share a meal with me | A |
| I'll add the addled eggs of plover | C |
| And gaily I will welcome you | F |
| To lunch within an arbour sunny | A |
| On nettle broth and bracken stew | F |
| And nice white mice conserved in honey | A |
Robert William Service
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