All In A Family Way Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEGHDHD CICIJDJD KLMNEDED OPOPODOD EDEDEDQD| My 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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