Sir Barnaby Bampton Boo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAACA DAEADEFD GHGHGGIG GAGAJJKJ ALALLLML BNBNOOPO QRQRAAQA SLTLEEQE UVWVGGXG| This is SIR BARNABY BAMPTON BOO | A |
| Last of a noble race | B |
| BARNABY BAMPTON coming to woo | A |
| All at a deuce of a pace | B |
| BARNABY BAMPTON BOO | A |
| Here is a health to you | A |
| Here is wishing you luck you elderly buck | C |
| BARNABY BAMPTON BOO | A |
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| The excellent women of Tuptonvee | D |
| Knew SIR BARNABY BOO | A |
| One of them surely his bride would be | E |
| But dickens a soul knew who | A |
| Women of Tuptonvee | D |
| Here is a health to ye | E |
| For a Baronet dears you would cut off your ears | F |
| Women of Tuptonvee | D |
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| Here are old MR and MRS DE PLOW | G |
| PETER his Christian name | H |
| They kept seven oxen a pig and a cow | G |
| Farming it was their game | H |
| Worthy old PETER DE PLOW | G |
| Here is a health to thou | G |
| Your race isn't run though you're seventy one | I |
| Worthy old PETER DE PLOW | G |
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| To excellent MR and MRS DE PLOW | G |
| Came SIR BARNABY BOO | A |
| He asked for their daughter and told 'em as how | G |
| He was as rich as a Jew | A |
| BARNABY BAMPTON'S wealth | J |
| Here is your jolly good health | J |
| I'd never repine if you came to be mine | K |
| BARNABY BAMPTON'S wealth | J |
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| O great SIR BARNABY BAMPTON BOO | A |
| Said PLOW to that titled swell | L |
| My missus has given me daughters two | A |
| AMELIA and VOLATILE NELL | L |
| AMELIA and VOLATILE NELL | L |
| I hope you're uncommonly well | L |
| You two pretty pearls you extremely nice girls | M |
| AMELIA and VOLATILE NELL | L |
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| AMELIA is passable only in face | B |
| But oh she's a worthy girl | N |
| Superior morals like hers would grace | B |
| The home of a belted Earl | N |
| Morality heavenly link | O |
| To you I'll eternally drink | O |
| I'm awfully fond of that heavenly bond | P |
| Morality heavenly link | O |
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| Now NELLY'S the prettier p'raps of my gals | Q |
| But oh she's a wayward chit | R |
| She dresses herself in her showy fal lals | Q |
| And doesn't read TUPPER a bit | R |
| O TUPPER philosopher true | A |
| How do you happen to do | A |
| A publisher looks with respect on your books | Q |
| For they DO sell philosopher true | A |
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| The Bart I'll be hanged if I drink him again | S |
| Or care if he's ill or well | L |
| He sneered at the goodness of MILLY THE PLAIN | T |
| And cottoned to VOLATILE NELL | L |
| O VOLATILE NELLY DE P | E |
| Be hanged if I'll empty to thee | E |
| I like worthy maids not mere frivolous jades | Q |
| VOLATILE NELLY DE P | E |
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| They bolted the Bart and his frivolous dear | U |
| And MILLY was left to pout | V |
| For years they've got on very well as I hear | W |
| But soon he will rue it no doubt | V |
| O excellent MILLY DE PLOW | G |
| I really can't drink to you now | G |
| My head isn't strong and the song has been long | X |
| Excellent MILLY DE PLOW | G |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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