Thomson Green And Harriet Hale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A AABB CCDD EEDD FFGG HIJJ AABB KKLL MMNN OOPP QQRR AABB CCDD SSBB NNDD TTDD AABB| To be sung to the Air of An 'Orrible Tale | A |
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| Oh list to this incredible tale | A |
| Of THOMSON GREEN and HARRIET HALE | A |
| Its truth in one remark you'll sum | B |
| Twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twum | B |
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| Oh THOMSON GREEN was an auctioneer | C |
| And made three hundred pounds a year | C |
| And HARRIET HALE most strange to say | D |
| Gave pianoforte lessons at a sovereign a day | D |
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| Oh THOMSON GREEN I may remark | E |
| Met HARRIET HALE in Regent's Park | E |
| Where he in a casual kind of way | D |
| Spoke of the extraordinary beauty of the day | D |
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| They met again and strange though true | F |
| He courted her for a month or two | F |
| Then to her pa he said says he | G |
| Old man I love your daughter and your daughter worships me | G |
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| Their names were regularly banned | H |
| The wedding day was settled and | I |
| I've ascertained by dint of search | J |
| They were married on the quiet at St Mary Abbot's Church | J |
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| Oh list to this incredible tale | A |
| Of THOMSON GREEN and HARRIET HALE | A |
| Its truth in one remark you'll sum | B |
| Twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twum | B |
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| That very self same afternoon | K |
| They started on their honeymoon | K |
| And oh astonishment took flight | L |
| To a pretty little cottage close to Shanklin Isle of Wight | L |
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| But now you'll doubt my word I know | M |
| In a month they both returned and lo | M |
| Astounding fact this happy pair | N |
| Took a gentlemanly residence in Canonbury Square | N |
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| They led a weird and reckless life | O |
| They dined each day this man and wife | O |
| Pray disbelieve it if you please | P |
| On a joint of meat a pudding and a little bit of cheese | P |
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| In time came those maternal joys | Q |
| Which take the form of girls or boys | Q |
| And strange to say of each they'd one | R |
| A tiddy iddy daughter and a tiddy iddy son | R |
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| Oh list to this incredible tale | A |
| Of THOMSON GREEN and HARRIET HALE | A |
| Its truth in one remark you'll sum | B |
| Twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twum | B |
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| My name for truth is gone I fear | C |
| But monstrous as it may appear | C |
| They let their drawing room one day | D |
| To an eligible person in the cotton broking way | D |
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| Whenever THOMSON GREEN fell sick | S |
| His wife called in a doctor quick | S |
| From whom some words like these would come | B |
| FIAT MIST SUMENDUM HAUSTUS in a COCHLEYAREUM | B |
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| For thirty years this curious pair | N |
| Hung out in Canonbury Square | N |
| And somehow wonderful to say | D |
| They loved each other dearly in a quiet sort of way | D |
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| Well THOMSON GREEN fell ill and died | T |
| For just a year his widow cried | T |
| And then her heart she gave away | D |
| To the eligible lodger in the cotton broking way | D |
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| Oh list to this incredible tale | A |
| Of THOMSON GREEN and HARRIET HALE | A |
| Its truth in one remark you'll sum | B |
| Twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twum | B |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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