The Sale Of The Tools Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A AABBCCDDBBDDAA EEAABBFFGGEEBB HAABBIIJKLL MEAAEENNBB| Instrumenta regni TACITUS | A |
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| Here's a choice set of Tools for you Ge'mmen and Ladies | A |
| They'll fit you quite handy whatever your trade is | A |
| Except it be Cabinet making no doubt | B |
| In that delicate service they're rather worn out | B |
| Tho' their owner bright youth if he'd had his own will | C |
| Would have bungled away with them joyously still | C |
| You see they've been pretty well hackt and alack | D |
| What tool is there job after job will not hack | D |
| Their edge is but dullish it must be confest | B |
| And their temper like Ellenborough's none of the best | B |
| But you'll find them good hardworking Tools upon trying | D |
| Were't but for their brass they are well worth the buying | D |
| They're famous for making blinds sliders and screens | A |
| And are some of them excellent turning machines | A |
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| The first Tool I'll put up they call it a Chancellor | E |
| Heavy concern to both purchaser and seller | E |
| Tho' made of pig iron yet worthy of note 'tis | A |
| 'Tis ready to melt at a half minute's notice | A |
| Who bids Gentle buyer 'twill turn as thou shapest | B |
| 'Twill make a good thumb screw to torture a Papist | B |
| Or else a cramp iron to stick in the wall | F |
| Of some church that old women are fearful will fall | F |
| Or better perhaps for I'm guessing at random | G |
| A heavy drag chain for some Lawyer's old Tandem | G |
| Will nobody bid It is cheap I am sure Sir | E |
| Once twice going going thrice gone it is yours Sir | E |
| To pay ready money you sha'n't be distrest | B |
| As a bill at long date suits the Chancellor best | B |
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| Come where's the next Tool | H |
| Oh 'tis here in a trice | A |
| This implement Ge'mmen at first was a Vice | A |
| A tenacious and close sort of tool that will let | B |
| Nothing out of its grasp it once happens to get | B |
| But it since has received a new coating of Tin | I |
| Bright enough for a Prince to behold himself in | I |
| Come what shall we say for it briskly bid on | J |
| We'll the sooner get rid of it going quite gone | K |
| God be with it such tools if not quickly knockt down | L |
| Might at last cost their owner how much why a Crown | L |
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| The next Tool I'll set up has hardly had handsel or | M |
| Trial as yet and is also a Chancellor | E |
| Such dull things as these should be sold by the gross | A |
| Yet dull as it is 'twill be found to shave close | A |
| And like other close shavers some courage to gather | E |
| This blade first began by a flourish on leather | E |
| You shall have it for nothing then marvel with me | N |
| At the terrible tinkering work there must be | N |
| Where a Tool such as this is I'll leave you to judge it | B |
| Is placed by ill luck at the top of the Budget | B |
Thomas Moore
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