John Day. - A Pathetic Ballad Poem Rhyme Scheme

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A Day after the Fair Old Proverb	A
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John Day he was the biggest man	B
Of all the coachman kind	C
With back too broad to be conceived	D
By any narrow mind	C
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The very horses knew his weight	E
When he was in the rear	F
And wished his box a Christmas box	G
To come but once a year	F
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Alas against the shafts of love	H
What armor can avail	I
Soon Cupid sent an arrow through	J
His scarlet coat of mail	I
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The barmaid of the Crown he loved	K
From whom he never ranged	L
For though he changed his horses there	M
His love he never changed	L
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He thought her fairest of all fares	N
So fondly love prefers	O
And often among twelve outsides	P
Deemed no outside like hers	O
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One day as she was sitting down	Q
Beside the porter pump	R
He came and knelt with all his fat	S
And made an offer plump	R
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Said she my taste will never learn	T
To like so huge a man	B
So I must beg you will come here	U
As little as you can	B
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But still he stoutly urged his suit	V
With vows and sighs and tears	N
Yet could not pierce her heart altho'	W
He drove the Dart for years	X
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In vain he wooed in vain he sued	Y
The maid was cold and proud	Z
And sent him off to Coventry	A2
While on his way to Stroud	Z
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He fretted all the way to Stroud	Z
And thence all back to town	Q
The course of love was never smooth	W
So his went up and down	Q
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At last her coldness made him pine	B2
To merely bones and skin	C2
But still he loved like one resolved	D2
To love through thick and thin	C2
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O Mary view my wasted back	E2
And see my dwindled calf	F2
Tho' I have never had a wife	G2
I've lost my better half	F2
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Alas in vain he still assail'd	H2
He heart withstood the dint	I2
Though he had carried sixteen stone	J2
He could not move a flint	I2
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Worn out at last he made a vow	K2
To break his being's link	L2
For he was so reduced in size	M2
At nothing he could shrink	L2
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Now some will talk in water's praise	N2
And waste a deal of breath	W
But John tho' he drank nothing else	O2
He drank himself to death	W
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The cruel maid that caused his love	H
Found out the fatal close	P2
For looking in the butt she saw	Q2
The butt end of his woes	R2
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Some say his spirit haunts the Crown	Q
But that is only talk	S2
For after riding all his life	G2
His ghost objects to walk	S2

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