Miss Edith Makes It Pleasant For Brother Jack Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB AACC AADD EEEE DDFF GGHH| Crying Of course I am crying and I guess you would be crying too | A |
| If people were telling such stories as they tell about me about you | A |
| Oh yes you can laugh if you want to and smoke as you didn't care how | B |
| And get your brains softened like uncle's Dr Jones says you're gettin' it now | B |
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| Why don't you say Stop to Miss Ilsey She cries twice as much as I do | A |
| And she's older and cries just from meanness for a ribbon or anything new | A |
| Ma says it's her sensitive nature Oh my No I sha'n't stop my talk | C |
| And I don't want no apples nor candy and I don't want to go take a walk | C |
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| I know why you're mad Yes I do now You think that Miss Ilsey likes you | A |
| And I've heard her repeatedly call you the bold facest boy that she knew | A |
| And she'd like to know where you learnt manners Oh yes Kick the table that's right | D |
| Spill the ink on my dress and go then round telling Ma that I look like a fright | D |
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| What stories Pretend you don't know that they're saying I broke off the match | E |
| Twixt old Money grubber and Mary by saying she called him Crosspatch | E |
| When the only allusion I made him about sister Mary was she | E |
| Cared more for his cash than his temper and you know Jack you said that to me | E |
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| And it's true But it's me and I'm scolded and Pa says if I keep on I might | D |
| By and by get my name in the papers Who cares Why 'twas only last night | D |
| I was reading how Pa and the sheriff were selling some lots and it's plain | F |
| If it's awful to be in the papers why Papa would go and complain | F |
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| You think it ain't true about Ilsey Well I guess I know girls and I say | G |
| There's nothing I see about Ilsey to show she likes you anyway | G |
| I know what it means when a girl who has called her cat after one boy | H |
| Goes and changes its name to another's And she's done it and I wish you joy | H |
Bret Harte (francis)
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