Cotton-wool Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE FFGGHHDE BBGGIIDE JJBBKKDE LLMMNNDEA| Shun the brush and shun the pen | A |
| Shun the ways of clever men | A |
| When they prove that black is white | B |
| Whey they swear that wrong is right | B |
| When they roast the singing stars | C |
| Like chestnuts in between the bars | C |
| Children let a wandering fool | D |
| Stuff your ears with cotton wool | E |
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| When you see a clever man | F |
| Run as quickly as you can | F |
| You must never never never | G |
| Think that Socrates was clever | G |
| The cleverest thing I ever knew | H |
| Now cracks walnuts at the Zoo | H |
| Children let a wandering fool | D |
| Stuff your ears with cotton wool | E |
| - | |
| Homer could not scintillate | B |
| Milton too was merely great | B |
| That's a very different matter | G |
| From talking like a frantic hatter | G |
| Keats and Shelley had no tricks | I |
| Wordsworth never climbed up sticks | I |
| Children let a wandering fool | D |
| Stuff your ears with cotton wool | E |
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| Lincoln would create a gloom | J |
| In many a London drawing room | J |
| He'd be silent at their wit | B |
| He would never laugh at it | B |
| When they kissed Salome's toes | K |
| I think he'd snort and blow his nose | K |
| Children let a wandering fool | D |
| Stuff your ears with cotton wool | E |
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| They'd curse him for a silly clown | L |
| They'd drum him out of London town | L |
| Professor Flunkey the historian | M |
| Would say he was a dull Victorian | M |
| Matthew Mark and Luke and John | N |
| Bless the bed I rest upon | N |
| Children let a wandering fool | D |
| Stuff your ears with cotton wool | E |
| Amen | A |
Alfred Noyes
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