Sally Simpkin's Lament; Or, John Jones's Kit-cat-astrophe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC CBDB EFDF FGHG IFJF CKFK LAFA MNON BPH HBQB FRBR| He left his body to the sea | A |
| And made a shark his legatee | B |
| BRYAN AND PERENNE | C |
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| Oh what is that comes gliding in | C |
| And quite in middling haste | B |
| It is the picture of my Jones | D |
| And painted to the waist | B |
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| It is not painted to the life | E |
| For where's the trowsers blue | F |
| Oh Jones my dear Oh dear my Jones | D |
| What is become of you | F |
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| Oh Sally dear it is too true | F |
| The half that you remark | G |
| Is come to say my other half | H |
| Is bit off by a shark | G |
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| Oh Sally sharks do things by halves | I |
| Yet most completely do | F |
| A bite in one place soems enough | J |
| But I've been bit in two | F |
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| You know I once was all your own | C |
| But now a shark must share | K |
| But let that pass for now to you | F |
| I'm neither here nor there | K |
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| Alas death has a strange divorce | L |
| Effected in the sea | A |
| It has divided me from you | F |
| And even me from me | A |
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| Don't fear my ghost will walk o' nights | M |
| To haunt as people say | N |
| My ghost can't walk for oh my legs | O |
| Are many leagues away | N |
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| Lord think when I am swimming round | B |
| And looking where the boat is | P |
| A shark just snaps away a half | H |
| Without a 'quarter's notice ' | - |
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| One half is here the other half | H |
| Is near Columbia placed | B |
| Oh Sally I have got the whole | Q |
| Atlantic for my waist | B |
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| But now adieu a long adieu | F |
| I've solved death's awful riddle | R |
| And would say more but I am doomed | B |
| To break off in the middle | R |
Thomas Hood
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