Nursery Rhyme. Xiv. Historical Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A AABB CCDD| The word tory has changed greatly in its meaning as it originated in the reign of Elizabeth and represented a class of bog trotters who were a compound of the knave and the highwayman For many interesting particulars see Crofton Croker's 'Researches in the South of Ireland ' to p | A |
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| Ho Master Teague what is your story | A |
| I went to the wood and kill'd a tory | A |
| I went to the wood and kill'd another | B |
| Was it the same or was it his brother | B |
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| I hunted him in and I hunted him out | C |
| Three times through the bog about and about | C |
| When out of a bush I saw his head | D |
| So I fired my gun and I shot him dead | D |
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