Proverbs

Susan 1952 (Coventry)



Jack sprat could eat no lean,
 he needed a wife to sweep the place clean,
and a thing of beauty is a joy in the ‘hood’
‘Cos a bit o’ what you fancy does ya good’

 Now, all the world loves a lover,
but a good man is hard to find
better the devil you know
and the one eyed man is better than blind.

But a woman’s place is  in the home
where a woman’s work is never done.
 A place for everything where it’s kempt
but familiarity soon breeds contempt.

Now  a leopard never changes his spots
just as watching never boils the pots.
But give him the rope, the hideous lover
And a woman scorned will recover.

And all’s well that ends well we’re told
And revenge is a dish best served cold
Hell hath no fury when a woman cries
And dead men never tell  lies.

The dog’s dinner is cold tonight,
perhaps another man’s poison fright.
Now here is the moral of this grisly tail
The female of the species is deadlier than the male.

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Submitted by sueb.04322 on June 30, 2023

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Scheme AABB CDXD XXBX EECC FFGG HHII
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 944
Words 197
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

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