Miss Edith Makes Another Friend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFG HIJJ JJKK KKLL| Oh you're the girl lives on the corner Come in if you want to come quick | A |
| There's no one but me in the house and the cook but she's only a stick | A |
| Don't try the front way but come over the fence through the window that's how | B |
| Don't mind the big dog he won't bite you just see him obey me there now | B |
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| What's your name Mary Ellen How funny Mine's Edith it's nicer you see | C |
| But yours does for you for you're plainer though maybe you're gooder than me | C |
| For Jack says I'm sometimes a devil but Jack of all folks needn't talk | D |
| For I don't call the seamstress an angel till Ma says the poor thing must walk | D |
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| Come in It's quite dark in the parlor for sister will keep the blinds down | E |
| For you know her complexion is sallow like yours but she isn't as brown | E |
| Though Jack says that isn't the reason she likes to sit here with Jim Moore | F |
| Do you think that he meant that she kissed him Would you if your lips wasn't sore | G |
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| If you like you can try our piano 'Tain't ours A man left it here | H |
| To rent by the month although Ma says he hasn't been paid for a year | I |
| Sister plays oh such fine variations why I once heard a gentleman say | J |
| That she didn't mind that for the music in fact it was just in her way | J |
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| Ain't I funny And yet it's the queerest of all that whatever I say | J |
| One half of the folks die a laughing and the rest they all look t'other way | J |
| And some say That child Do they ever say that to such people as you | K |
| Though maybe you're naturally silly and that makes your eyes so askew | K |
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| Now stop don't you dare to be crying Just as sure as you live if you do | K |
| I'll call in my big dog to bite you and I'll make my Papa kill you too | K |
| And then where'll you be So play pretty There's my doll and a nice piece of cake | L |
| You don't want it you think it is poison Then I'll eat it dear just for your sake | L |
Bret Harte (francis)
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