The Supper Superstition. - A Pathetic Ballad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EDFD GCHC I JKLK I MNON I IPQP I RSTS I UCU S VEWE S XSYS S ZA2SA2 S B2SIS S C2D2E2D2 I F2XCX I D2G2SG2 I DSH2S I ESSS| Oh flesh flesh how art thou fishified MERCUTIO | A |
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| 'Twas twelve o'clock by Chelsea chimes | B |
| When all in hungry trim | C |
| Good Mister Jupp sat down to sup | D |
| With wife and Kate and Jim | C |
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| Said he Upon this dainty cod | E |
| How bravely I shall sup | D |
| When whiter than the tablecloth | F |
| A GHOST came rising up | D |
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| O father dear O mother dear | G |
| Dear Kate and brother Jim | C |
| You know when some one went to sea | H |
| Don't cry but I am him | C |
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| IV | I |
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| You hope some day with fond embrace | J |
| To greet your absent Jack | K |
| But oh I am come here to say | L |
| I'm never coming back | K |
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| V | I |
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| From Alexandria we set sail | M |
| With corn and oil and figs | N |
| But steering 'too much Sow ' we struck | O |
| Upon the Sow and Pigs | N |
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| VI | I |
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| The ship we pumped till we could see | I |
| Old England from the tops | P |
| When down she went with all our hands | Q |
| Right in the Channel's Chops | P |
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| VII | I |
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| Just give a look in Norey's chart | R |
| The very place it tells | S |
| I think it says twelve fathom deep | T |
| Clay bottom mixed with shells | S |
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| VIII | I |
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| Well there we are till 'hands aloft ' | - |
| We have at last a call | U |
| The pug I had for brother Jim | C |
| Kate's parrot too and all | U |
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| IX | S |
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| But oh my spirit cannot rest | V |
| In Davy Joneses sod | E |
| Till I've appeared to you and said | W |
| Don't sup on that 'ere Cod | E |
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| X | S |
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| You live on land and little think | X |
| What passes in the sea | S |
| Last Sunday week at P M | Y |
| That Cod was picking me | S |
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| XI | S |
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| Those oysters too that look so plump | Z |
| And seem so nicely done | A2 |
| They put my corpse in many shells | S |
| Instead of only one | A2 |
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| XII | S |
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| Oh do not eat those oysters then | B2 |
| And do not touch the shrimps | S |
| When I was in my briny grave | I |
| They sucked my blood like imps | S |
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| XIII | S |
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| Don't eat what brutes would never eat | C2 |
| The brutes I used to pat | D2 |
| They'll know the smell they used to smell | E2 |
| Just try the dog and cat | D2 |
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| XIV | I |
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| The spirit fled they wept his fate | F2 |
| And cried Alack alack | X |
| At last up started brother Jim | C |
| Let's try if Jack was Jack | X |
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| XV | I |
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| They called the Dog they called the Cat | D2 |
| And little Kitten too | G2 |
| And down they put the Cod and sauce | S |
| To see what brutes would do | G2 |
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| XVI | I |
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| Old Tray licked all the oysters up | D |
| Puss never stood at crimps | S |
| But munched the Cod and little Kit | H2 |
| Quite feasted on the shrimps | S |
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| XVII | I |
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| The thing was odd and minus Cod | E |
| And sauce they stood like posts | S |
| Oh prudent folks for fear of hoax | S |
| Put no belief in Ghosts | S |
Thomas Hood
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