A Smuggler's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEFBB GHII JJKK LLMM DDBB NNOOCDEFBB| If you wake at midnight and hear a horse's feet | A |
| Don't go drawing back the blind or looking in the street | A |
| Them that ask no questions isn't told a lie | B |
| Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by | B |
| Five and twenty ponies | C |
| Trotting through the dark | D |
| Brandy for the Parson | E |
| 'Baccy for the Clerk | F |
| Laces for a lady letters for a spy | B |
| And watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by | B |
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| Running round the woodlump if you chance to find | G |
| Little barrels roped and tarred all full of brandy wine | H |
| Don't you shout to come and look nor use 'em for your play | I |
| Put the brishwood back again and they'll be gone next day | I |
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| If you see the stable door setting open wide | J |
| If you see a tired horse lying down inside | J |
| If your mother mends a coat cut about and tore | K |
| If the lining's wet and warm don't you ask no more | K |
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| If you meet King George's men dressed in blue and red | L |
| You be carefull what you say and mindful what is said | L |
| If they call you pretty maid and chuck you 'neath the chin | M |
| Don't you tell where no one is nor yet where no one's been | M |
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| Knocks and footsteps round the house whistles after dark | D |
| You've no call for running out till the house dogs bark | D |
| Trusty's here and Pincher's here and see how dumb they lie | B |
| They don't fret to follow when the Gentlemen go by | B |
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| If you do as you've been told 'likely there's a chance | N |
| You'll be given a dainty doll all the way from France | N |
| With a cap of Valenciennes and a velvet hood | O |
| A present from the Gentlemen along o' being good | O |
| Five and twenty ponies | C |
| Trotting through the dark | D |
| Brandy for the Parson | E |
| 'Baccy for the Clerk | F |
| Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie | B |
| Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen bo by | B |
Rudyard Kipling
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