Huggins And Duggins. - Pastoral, After Pope Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBCCDD A AAEE A FFAA A GGHH A HHII A JJKK A EEAA A CCCC A HHAA A AAAA A IIAA A LLAA A MMEE A NNAA A CCHH

Two swains or clowns but call them swainsA
Whilst keeping flocks on Salisbury plainsA
For all that tend on sheep as droversA
Are turned to songsters or to loversA
Each of the lass he call'd his dearB
Began to carol loud and clearB
First Huggins sang and Duggins thenC
In the way of ancient shepherd menC
Who thus alternate hitched in songD
All things by turns and nothing longD
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HUGGINSA
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Of all the girls about our placeA
There's one beats all in form and faceA
Search through all Great and Little BumpsteadE
You'll only find one Peggy PlumsteadE
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DUGGINSA
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To groves and streams I tell my flameF
I make the cliffs repeat her nameF
When I'm inspired by gills and nogginsA
The rocks re echo Sally HogginsA
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HUGGINSA
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When I am walking in the groveG
I think of Peggy as I roveG
I'd carve her name on every treeH
But I don't know my A B CH
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DUGGINSA
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Whether I walk in hill or valleyH
I think of nothing else but SallyH
I'd sing her praise but I can singI
No song except God save the kingI
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HUGGINSA
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My Peggy does all nymphs excelJ
And all confess she bears the bellJ
Where'er she goes swains flock togetherK
Like sheep that follow the bell wetherK
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DUGGINSA
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Sally is tall and not too straightE
Those very poplar shapes I hateE
But something twisted like an SA
A crook becomes a shepherdessA
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HUGGINSA
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When Peggy's dog her arms empris'nC
I often wish my lot was hisnC
How often I should stand and turnC
To get a pat from hands like hernC
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DUGGINSA
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I tell Sall's lambs how blest they beH
To stand about and stare at sheH
But when I look she turns and shiesA
And won't bear none but their sheep's eyesA
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HUGGINSA
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Love goes with Peggy where she goesA
Beneath her smile the garden growsA
Potatoes spring and cabbage startsA
'Tatoes have eyes and cabbage heartsA
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DUGGINSA
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Where Sally goes it's always SpringI
Her presence brightens everythingI
The sun smiles bright but where her grin isA
It makes brass farthings look like guineasA
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HUGGINSA
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For Peggy I can have no joyL
She's sometimes kind and sometimes coyL
And keeps me by her wayward tricksA
As comfortless as sheep with ticksA
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DUGGINSA
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Sally is ripe as June or MayM
And yet as cold as Christmas DayM
For when she's asked to change her lotE
Lamb's wool but Sally she wool notE
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HUGGINSA
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Only with Peggy and with healthN
I'd never wish for state or wealthN
Talking of having health and more penceA
I'd drink her health if I had fourpenceA
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DUGGINSA
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Oh how that day would seem to shineC
If Sally's banns were read with mineC
She cries when such a wish I carryH
Marry come up but will not marryH

Thomas Hood



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