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"Dear Pig, you willing to for one shilling
Your ring?" the Piggy, "I will."
So they it away, and were married next day
By the Turkey who on the hill.
They on mince and slices of quince,
Which they with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.
About the words
Did you notice that all the words you needed to fill in are verbs? A verb is an action word.
'Are' is the second person singular (and plural) form of 'to be'.
This is a special verb. Of course, being is an action. To be means to exist or to have a particular state. For example, I am glad. But along with 'to do', 'to be' is also used as a helping verb in the construction of sentences and questions.
Pussy (or Owl, we don't know who is speaking, though Pussy seems to be the more talkative one) could ask, "Dear Pig, will you sell your ring for one shilling?" That's perfectly correct and straightforward. Except, it doesn't scan, that is fit the meter of the poem. Oops! This way of putting it also allows for an internal rhyme (where two words in the same line rhyme, instead of having the final words of two lines rhyme) - 'willing' and 'shilling' rhyme - and the same is true later, for 'away' and day', for 'mince' and 'quince', and for 'hand' and 'sand'.
To sell means to exchange something for something else, most often money. Pussy and Owl want to know if Piggy-wig will give them his ring in exchange for a shilling, a silver coin worth twelve pence. When our poem was published in 1871, a shilling was a respectable amount of money.
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'Said' is the past tense of 'to say'. This means that the action being described is not happening right now, it has already taken place.
'Took' is the past tense of 'to take'.
'Lives' is the third person singular present tense of 'to live'. One person or thing is taking the action, and it is happening right now.
'Dined' is the past tense of 'to dine', that means to eat dinner or, more generally, to eat a fancy meal. Mince and slices of quince sounds pretty fancy to me!
'Ate' is the past tense of 'to eat'.
'Danced' is the past tense of 'to dance'. There are many different kinds of dances, and many different reasons to dance. Most often, though, people dance because they're happy. Pussy and Owl are happy because they just got married.
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