The Master-cook Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEDDE EFFGHDBEEAADDGGCCEEI I| With us there rade a Maister Cook that came | A |
| From the Rochelle which is neere Angouleme | A |
| Littel hee was but rounder than a topp | B |
| And his small berd hadde dipped in manie a soppe | B |
| His honde was smoother than beseemeth mann's | C |
| And his discoorse was all of marzipans | C |
| Of tripes of Caen or Burdeux snailes swote | D |
| And Seinte Menhoulde wher cooken pigges foote | D |
| To Thoulouse and to Bress and Carcasson | E |
| For pyes and fowles and chesnottes hadde hee wonne | E |
| Of hammes of Thuringie colde hee prate | D |
| And well hee knew what Princes hadde on plate | D |
| At Christmas tide from Artois to Gascogne | E |
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| Lordinges quod hee manne liveth nat alone | E |
| By bred but meates rost and seethed and broth | F |
| And purchasable deinties on mine othe | F |
| Honey and hote gingere well liketh hee | G |
| And whales flesch mortred with spicerie | H |
| For lat be all how man denie or carpe quot | D |
| Him thries a daie his honger maketh sharpe | B |
| And setteth him at boorde with hawkes eyne | E |
| Snuffing what dish is set beforne to deyne | E |
| Nor till with meate he all to fill to brim | A |
| None other matter nowher mooveth him | A |
| Lat holie Seintes sterve as bookes boast | D |
| Most mannes soule is in his bellie most | D |
| For as man thinketh in his hearte is hee | G |
| But as hee eateth so his thought shall bee | G |
| And Holie Fader's self with reveraunce | C |
| Oweth to Cooke his port and his presaunce | C |
| Wherebye it cometh past disputison | E |
| Cookes over alle men have dominion | E |
| Which follow them as schippe her gouvernail | I |
| Enoff of wordes beginneth heere my tale | I |
Rudyard Kipling
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