The Lament Of Toby, The Learned Pig Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Oh heavy day oh day of woe	A
To misery a poster	B
Why was I ever farrowed why	C
Not spitted for a roaster	B
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In this world pigs as well as men	D
Must dance to fortune's fiddlings	E
But must I give the classics up	F
For barley meal and middlings	E
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Of what avail that I could spell	G
And read just like my betters	E
If I must come to this at last	H
To litters not to letters	E
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Oh why are pigs made scholars of	I
It baffles my discerning	J
What griskins fry and chitterlings	E
Can have to do with learning	J
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Alas my learning once drew cash	K
But public fame's unstable	L
So I must turn a pig again	D
And fatten for the table	L
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To leave my literary line	M
My eyes get red and leaky	N
But Giblett doesn't want me blue	O
But red and white and streaky	N
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Old Mullins used to cultivate	P
My learning like a gard'ner	B
But Giblett only thinks of lard	Q
And not of Doctor Lardner	B
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He does not care about my brain	R
The value of two coppers	E
All that he thinks about my head	S
Is how I'm off for choppers	E
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Of all my literary kin	T
A farewell must be taken	U
Goodbye to the poetic Hogg	N
The philosophic Bacon	U
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Day after day my lessons fade	V
My intellect gets muddy	N
A trough I have and not a desk	N
A stye and not a study	N
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Another little month and then	D
My progress ends like Bunyan's	E
The seven sages that I loved	W
Will be chopped up with onions	E
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Then over head and ears in brine	M
They'll souse me like a salmon	U
My mathematics turned to brawn	X
My logic into gammon	U
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My Hebrew will all retrograde	V
Now I'm put up to fatten	U
My Greek it will all go to grease	E
The dogs will have my Latin	U
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Farewell to Oxford and to Bliss	E
To Milman Crowe and Glossop	F
I now must be content with chats	E
Instead of learned gossip	F
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Farewell to 'Town ' farewell to 'Gown '	-
I've quite outgrown the latter	B
Instead of Trencher cap my head	S
Will soon be in a platter	B
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Oh why did I at Brazen Nose	E
Rout up the roots of knowledge	Y
A butcher that can't read will kill	Z
A pig that's been to college	A2
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For sorrow I could stick myself	B2
But conscience is a dasher	B
A thing that would be rash in man	C2
In me would be a rasher	B
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One thing I ask when I am dead	S
And past the Stygian ditches	E
And that is let my schoolmaster	B
Have one of my two Hitches	E
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'Twas he who taught my letters so	E
I ne'er mistook or missed 'em	D2
Simply by ringing at the nose	E
According to Bell's system	D2

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