Thanksgiving Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CCDD A CC B EEFFGGHHII A JJDDKKLLMMNNOOOKKPP Q RKRSKKTKKTKKUUS K KKKKDDSSKKUU| The Superintendent of an Almshouse A Pauper | A |
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| SUPERINTENDENT | B |
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| So you're unthankful you'll not eat the bird | C |
| You sit about the place all day and gird | C |
| I understand you'll not attend the ball | D |
| That's to be given to night in Pauper Hall | D |
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| PAUPER | A |
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| Why that is true precisely as you've heard | C |
| I have no teeth and I will eat no bird | C |
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| SUPERINTENDENT | B |
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| Ah see how good is Providence Because | E |
| Of teeth He has denuded both your jaws | E |
| The fowl's made tender you can overcome it | F |
| By suction or at least well you can gum it | F |
| Attesting thus the dictum of the preachers | G |
| That Providence is good to all His creatures | G |
| Turkeys excepted Come ungrateful friend | H |
| If our Thanksgiving dinner you'll attend | H |
| You shall say grace ask God to bless at least | I |
| The soft and liquid portions of the feast | I |
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| PAUPER | A |
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| Without those teeth my speech is rather thick | J |
| He'll hardly understand Gum Arabic | J |
| No I'll not dine to day As to the ball | D |
| 'Tis known to you that I've no legs at all | D |
| I had the gout hereditary so | K |
| As it could not be cornered in my toe | K |
| They cut my legs off in the fond belief | L |
| That shortening me would make my anguish brief | L |
| Lacking my legs I could not prosecute | M |
| With any good advantage a pursuit | M |
| And so because my father chose to court | N |
| Heaven's favor with his ortolans and Port | N |
| Thanksgiving every day the Lord supplied | O |
| Saws for my legs an almshouse for my pride | O |
| And once a year a bird for my inside | O |
| No I'll not dance my light fantastic toe | K |
| Took to its heels some twenty years ago | K |
| Some small repairs would be required for putting | P |
| My feelings on a saltatory footing | P |
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| Sings | Q |
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| O the legless man's an unhappy chap | R |
| Tum hi tum hi tum he o'haddy | K |
| The favors o' fortune fall not in his lap | R |
| Tum hi tum heedle do hum | S |
| The plums of office avoid his plate | K |
| No matter how much he may stump the State | K |
| Tum hi ho heeee | T |
| The grass grows never beneath his feet | K |
| But he cannot hope to make both ends meet | K |
| Tum hi | T |
| With a gleeless eye and a somber heart | K |
| He plays the role of his mortal part | K |
| Wholly himself he can never be | U |
| O a soleless corporation is he | U |
| Tum | S |
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| SUPERINTENDENT | K |
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| The chapel bell is calling thankless friend | K |
| Balls you may not but church you shall attend | K |
| Some recognition cannot be denied | K |
| To the great mercy that has turned aside | K |
| The sword of death from us and let it fall | D |
| Upon the people's necks in Montreal | D |
| That spared our city steeple roof and dome | S |
| And drowned the Texans out of house and home | S |
| Blessed all our continent with peace to flood | K |
| The Balkan with a cataclysm of blood | K |
| Compared with blessings of so high degree | U |
| Your private woes look mighty small to me | U |
Ambrose Bierce
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