On The Landing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BB C DEDE C FEFE C AEAE C AEAE C AEAE C BEBE C BE C BE C GEGE C HB C EHE C AE C AEAn Idyl Of The Balusters | A |
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BOBBY aetat | B |
JOHNNY aetat | B |
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BOBBY | C |
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Do you know why they've put us in that back room | D |
Up in the attic close against the sky | E |
And made believe our nursery's a cloak room | D |
Do you know why | E |
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JOHNNY | C |
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No more I don't nor why that Sammy's mother | F |
What Ma thinks horrid 'cause he bunged my eye | E |
Eats an ice cream down there like any other | F |
No more don't I | E |
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BOBBY | C |
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Do you know why Nurse says it isn't manners | A |
For you and me to ask folks twice for pie | E |
And no one hits that man with two bananas | A |
Do you know why | E |
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JOHNNY | C |
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No more I don't nor why that girl whose dress is | A |
Off of her shoulders don't catch cold and die | E |
When you and me gets croup when WE undresses | A |
No more don't I | E |
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BOBBY | C |
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Perhaps she ain't as good as you and I is | A |
And God don't want her up there in the sky | E |
And lets her live to come in just when pie is | A |
Perhaps that's why | E |
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JOHNNY | C |
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Do you know why that man that's got a cropped head | B |
Rubbed it just now as if he felt a fly | E |
Could it be Bobby something that I dropded | B |
And is that why | E |
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BOBBY | C |
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Good boys behaves and so they don't get scolded | B |
Nor drop hot milk on folks as they pass by | E |
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JOHNNY piously | C |
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Marbles would bounce on Mr Jones' bald head | B |
But I sha'n't try | E |
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BOBBY | C |
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Do you know why Aunt Jane is always snarling | G |
At you and me because we tells a lie | E |
And she don't slap that man that called her darling | G |
Do you know why | E |
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JOHNNY | C |
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No more I don't nor why that man with Mamma | H |
Just kissed her hand | B |
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BOBBY | C |
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She hurt it and that's why | E |
He made it well the very way that Mamma | H |
Does do to I | E |
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JOHNNY | C |
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I feel so sleepy Was that Papa kissed us | A |
What made him sigh and look up to the sky | E |
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BOBBY | C |
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We weren't downstairs and he and God had missed us | A |
And that was why | E |
Bret Harte
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