The Cherries. A Parable Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGHG IJIJ KHKH ELEL EMEM EMEM KEKE NKNK| A | |
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| See those cherries how they cover | B |
| Yonder sunny garden wall | C |
| Had they not that network over | B |
| Thieving birds would eat them all | C |
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| So to guard our posts and pensions | D |
| Ancient sages wove a net | E |
| Thro' whose holes of small dimensions | D |
| Only certain knaves can get | E |
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| Shall we then this network widen | F |
| Shall we stretch these sacred holes | G |
| Thro' which even already slide in | H |
| Lots of small dissenting souls | G |
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| God forbid old Testy crieth | I |
| God forbid so echo I | J |
| Every ravenous bird that flieth | I |
| Then would at our cherries fly | J |
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| Ope but half an inch or so | K |
| And behold what bevies break in | H |
| Here some curst old Popish crow | K |
| Pops his long and lickerish beak in | H |
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| Here sly Arians flock unnumbered | E |
| And Socinians slim and spare | L |
| Who with small belief encumbered | E |
| Slip in easy anywhere | L |
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| Methodists of birds the aptest | E |
| Where there's pecking going on | M |
| And that water fowl the Baptist | E |
| All would share our fruits anon | M |
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| Every bird of every city | E |
| That for years with ceaseless din | M |
| Hath reverst the starling's ditty | E |
| Singing out I can't get in | M |
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| God forbid old Testy snivels | K |
| God forbid I echo too | E |
| Rather may ten thousand devils | K |
| Seize the whole voracious crew | E |
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| If less costly fruits won't suit 'em | N |
| Hips and haws and such like berries | K |
| Curse the cormorants stone 'em shoot 'em | N |
| Anything to save our cherries | K |
Thomas Moore
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