On The High Price Of Fish Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFEF GCGC HIHI| Cocoa nut naught | A |
| Fish too dear | B |
| None must be bought | C |
| For us that are here | D |
| - | |
| No lobster on earth | E |
| That ever I saw | F |
| To me would be worth | E |
| Sixpence a claw | F |
| - | |
| So dear madam wait | G |
| Till fish can be got | C |
| At a reas'nable rate | G |
| Whether lobster or not | C |
| - | |
| Till the French and the Dutch | H |
| Have quitted the seas | I |
| And then send as much | H |
| And as oft as you please | I |
William Cowper
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