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 CCHHTwo swains or clowns but call them swains | A |
Whilst keeping flocks on Salisbury plains | A |
For all that tend on sheep as drovers | A |
Are turned to songsters or to lovers | A |
Each of the lass he call'd his dear | B |
Began to carol loud and clear | B |
First Huggins sang and Duggins then | C |
In the way of ancient shepherd men | C |
Who thus alternate hitched in song | D |
All things by turns and nothing long | D |
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HUGGINS | A |
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Of all the girls about our place | A |
There's one beats all in form and face | A |
Search through all Great and Little Bumpstead | E |
You'll only find one Peggy Plumstead | E |
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DUGGINS | A |
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To groves and streams I tell my flame | F |
I make the cliffs repeat her name | F |
When I'm inspired by gills and noggins | A |
The rocks re echo Sally Hoggins | A |
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HUGGINS | A |
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When I am walking in the grove | G |
I think of Peggy as I rove | G |
I'd carve her name on every tree | H |
But I don't know my A B C | H |
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DUGGINS | A |
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Whether I walk in hill or valley | H |
I think of nothing else but Sally | H |
I'd sing her praise but I can sing | I |
No song except God save the king | I |
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HUGGINS | A |
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My Peggy does all nymphs excel | J |
And all confess she bears the bell | J |
Where'er she goes swains flock together | K |
Like sheep that follow the bell wether | K |
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DUGGINS | A |
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Sally is tall and not too straight | E |
Those very poplar shapes I hate | E |
But something twisted like an S | A |
A crook becomes a shepherdess | A |
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HUGGINS | A |
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When Peggy's dog her arms empris'n | C |
I often wish my lot was hisn | C |
How often I should stand and turn | C |
To get a pat from hands like hern | C |
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DUGGINS | A |
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I tell Sall's lambs how blest they be | H |
To stand about and stare at she | H |
But when I look she turns and shies | A |
And won't bear none but their sheep's eyes | A |
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HUGGINS | A |
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Love goes with Peggy where she goes | A |
Beneath her smile the garden grows | A |
Potatoes spring and cabbage starts | A |
'Tatoes have eyes and cabbage hearts | A |
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DUGGINS | A |
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Where Sally goes it's always Spring | I |
Her presence brightens everything | I |
The sun smiles bright but where her grin is | A |
It makes brass farthings look like guineas | A |
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HUGGINS | A |
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For Peggy I can have no joy | L |
She's sometimes kind and sometimes coy | L |
And keeps me by her wayward tricks | A |
As comfortless as sheep with ticks | A |
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DUGGINS | A |
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Sally is ripe as June or May | M |
And yet as cold as Christmas Day | M |
For when she's asked to change her lot | E |
Lamb's wool but Sally she wool not | E |
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HUGGINS | A |
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Only with Peggy and with health | N |
I'd never wish for state or wealth | N |
Talking of having health and more pence | A |
I'd drink her health if I had fourpence | A |
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DUGGINS | A |
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Oh how that day would seem to shine | C |
If Sally's banns were read with mine | C |
She cries when such a wish I carry | H |
Marry come up but will not marry | H |
Thomas Hood
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