All In A Family Way Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEGHDHD CICIJDJD KLMNEDED OPOPODOD EDEDEDQDMy banks are all furnished with rags | A |
So thick even Freddy can't thin 'em | B |
I've torn up my old money bags | A |
Having little or nought to put in 'em | B |
My tradesman are smashing by dozens | C |
But this is all nothing they say | D |
For bankrupts since Adam are cousins | C |
So it's all in the family way | D |
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My Debt not a penny takes from me | E |
As sages the matter explain | F |
Bob owes it to Tom and then Tommy | E |
Just owes it to Bob back again | G |
Since all have thus taken to owing | H |
There's nobody left that can pay | D |
And this is the way to keep going | H |
All quite in the family way | D |
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My senators vote away millions | C |
To put in Prosperity's budget | I |
And though it were billions or trillions | C |
The generous rogues wouldn't grudge it | I |
'Tis all but a family hop | J |
'Twas Pitt began dancing the hay | D |
Hands round why the deuce should we stop | J |
'Tis all in the family way | D |
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My labourers used to eat mutton | K |
As any great man of the State does | L |
And now the poor devils are put on | M |
Small rations of tea and potatoes | N |
But cheer up John Sawney and Paddy | E |
The King is your father they say | D |
So ev'n if you starve for your Daddy | E |
'Tis all in the family way | D |
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My rich manufacturers tumble | O |
My poor ones have nothing to chew | P |
And even if themselves do not grumble | O |
Their stomachs undoubtedly do | P |
But coolly to fast en famille | O |
Is as good for the soul as to pray | D |
And famine itself is genteel | O |
When one starves in a family way | D |
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I have found out a secret for Freddy | E |
A secret for next Budget day | D |
Though perhaps he may know it already | E |
As he too 's a sage in his way | D |
When next for the Treasury scene he | E |
Announces the Devil to pay | D |
Let him write on the bills Nota bene | Q |
'Tis all in the family way | D |
Thomas Moore
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