Child Development Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FFGDHIFEJ KLMLEN OPQRFSRRR| As sure as prehistoric fish grew legs | A |
| and sauntered off the beaches into forests | B |
| working up some irregular verbs for their | C |
| first conversation so three year old children | D |
| enter the phase of name calling | E |
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| Every day a new one arrives and is added | F |
| to the repertoire You Dumb Goopyhead | F |
| You Big Sewerface You Poop on the Floor | G |
| a kind of Navaho ring to that one | D |
| they yell from knee level their little mugs | H |
| flushed with challenge | I |
| Nothing Samuel Johnson would bother tossing out | F |
| in a pub but then the toddlers are not trying | E |
| to devastate some fatuous Enlightenment hack | J |
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| They are just tormenting their fellow squirts | K |
| or going after the attention of the giants | L |
| way up there with their cocktails and bad breath | M |
| talking baritone nonsense to other giants | L |
| waiting to call them names after thanking | E |
| them for the lovely party and hearing the door close | N |
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| The mature save their hothead invective | O |
| for things an errant hammer tire chains | P |
| or receding trains missed by seconds | Q |
| though they know in their adult hearts | R |
| even as they threaten to banish Timmy to bed | F |
| for his appalling behavior | S |
| that their bosses are Big Fatty Stupids | R |
| their wives are Dopey Dopeheads | R |
| and that they themselves are Mr Sillypants | R |
Billy Collins
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