Out Of Sorts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCBDEDEFGHFGH IIIJCCCJKCKCGDIGDI| When you find you're a broken down critter | A |
| Who is all of a trimmle and twitter | A |
| With your palate unpleasantly bitter | A |
| As if you'd just bitten a pill | B |
| When your legs are as thin as dividers | C |
| And you're plagued with unruly insiders | C |
| And your spine is all creepy with spiders | C |
| And you're highly gamboge in the gill | B |
| When you've got a beehive in your head | D |
| And a sewing machine in each ear | E |
| And you feel that you've eaten your bed | D |
| And you've got a bad headache DOWN HERE | E |
| When such facts are about | F |
| And these symptoms you find | G |
| In your body or crown | H |
| Well it's time to look out | F |
| You may make up your mind | G |
| You had better lie down | H |
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| When your lips are all smeary like tallow | I |
| And your tongue is decidedly yallow | I |
| With a pint of warm oil in your swAllow | I |
| And a pound of tin tacks in your chest | J |
| When you're down in the mouth with the vapours | C |
| And all over your new Morris papers | C |
| Black beetles are cutting their capers | C |
| And crawly things never at rest | J |
| When you doubt if your head is your own | K |
| And you jump when an open door slams | C |
| Then you've got to a state which is known | K |
| To the medical world as jim jams | C |
| If such symptoms you find | G |
| In your body or head | D |
| They're not easy to quell | I |
| You may make up your mind | G |
| You are better in bed | D |
| For you're not at all well | I |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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