Friar-s Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FDFDGDGE HIJIKKKK| Some love the matin chimes which tell | A |
| The hour of prayer to sinner | B |
| But better far's the mid day bell | A |
| Which speaks the hour of dinner | B |
| For when I see a smoking fish | C |
| Or capon drown'd in gravy | D |
| Or noble haunch on silver dish | C |
| Full glad I sing my ave | E |
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| My pulpit is an alehouse bench | F |
| Whereon I sit so jolly | D |
| A smiling rosy country wench | F |
| My saint and patron holy | D |
| I kiss her cheek so red and sleek | G |
| I press her ringlets wavy | D |
| And in her willing ear I speak | G |
| A most religious ave | E |
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| And if I'm blind yet heaven is kind | H |
| And holy saints forgiving | I |
| For sure he leads a right good life | J |
| Who thus admires good living | I |
| Above they say our flesh is air | K |
| Our blood celestial ichor | K |
| Oh grant mid all the changes there | K |
| They may not change our liquor | K |
William Makepeace Thackeray
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