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 AE

An Idyl Of The BalustersA
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BOBBY aetatB
JOHNNY aetatB
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BOBBYC
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Do you know why they've put us in that back roomD
Up in the attic close against the skyE
And made believe our nursery's a cloak roomD
Do you know whyE
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JOHNNYC
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No more I don't nor why that Sammy's motherF
What Ma thinks horrid 'cause he bunged my eyeE
Eats an ice cream down there like any otherF
No more don't IE
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BOBBYC
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Do you know why Nurse says it isn't mannersA
For you and me to ask folks twice for pieE
And no one hits that man with two bananasA
Do you know whyE
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JOHNNYC
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No more I don't nor why that girl whose dress isA
Off of her shoulders don't catch cold and dieE
When you and me gets croup when WE undressesA
No more don't IE
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BOBBYC
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Perhaps she ain't as good as you and I isA
And God don't want her up there in the skyE
And lets her live to come in just when pie isA
Perhaps that's whyE
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JOHNNYC
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Do you know why that man that's got a cropped headB
Rubbed it just now as if he felt a flyE
Could it be Bobby something that I dropdedB
And is that whyE
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BOBBYC
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Good boys behaves and so they don't get scoldedB
Nor drop hot milk on folks as they pass byE
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JOHNNY piouslyC
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Marbles would bounce on Mr Jones' bald headB
But I sha'n't tryE
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BOBBYC
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Do you know why Aunt Jane is always snarlingG
At you and me because we tells a lieE
And she don't slap that man that called her darlingG
Do you know whyE
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JOHNNYC
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No more I don't nor why that man with MammaH
Just kissed her handB
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BOBBYC
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She hurt it and that's whyE
He made it well the very way that MammaH
Does do to IE
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JOHNNYC
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I feel so sleepy Was that Papa kissed usA
What made him sigh and look up to the skyE
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BOBBYC
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We weren't downstairs and he and God had missed usA
And that was whyE

Bret Harte



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