Husband And Heathen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDEFFE ADGADHEDDDD DIGAIFFJDDJ| O'er the men of Ethiopia she would pour her cornucopia | A |
| And shower wealth and plenty on the people of Japan | B |
| Send down jelly cake and candies to the Indians of the Andes | C |
| And a cargo of plum pudding to the men of Hindoostan | B |
| And she said she loved 'em so | D |
| Bushman Finn and Eskimo | D |
| If she had the wings of eagles to their succour she would fly | E |
| Loaded down with jam and jelly | F |
| Succotash and vermicelli | F |
| Prunes pomegranates plums and pudding peaches pineapples and pie | E |
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| She would fly with speedy succour to the natives of Molucca | A |
| With whole loads of quail and salmon and with tons of fricassee | D |
| And give cake in fullest measure | G |
| To the men of Australasia | A |
| And all the Archipelagoes that dot the southern sea | D |
| And the Anthropophagi | H |
| All their lives deprived of pie | E |
| She would satiate and satisfy with custards cream and mince | D |
| And those miserable Australians | D |
| And the Borrioboolighalians | D |
| She would gorge with choicest jelly raspberry currant grape and quince | D |
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| But like old war time hardtackers her poor husband lived on crackers | D |
| Bought at wholesale from a baker eaten from the mantelshelf | I |
| If the men of Madagascar | G |
| And the natives of Alaska | A |
| Had enough to sate their hunger let him look out for himself | I |
| And his coat had but one tail | F |
| And he used a shingle nail | F |
| To fasten up his galluses when he went out to his work | J |
| And she used to spend his money | D |
| To buy sugar plums and honey | D |
| For the Terra del Fuegian and the Turcoman and Turk | J |
Sam Walter Foss
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