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