Incorrect Speaking Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD EFEFGG HIHIJJ| Incorrectness in your speech | A |
| Carefully avoid my Anna | B |
| Study well the sense of each | A |
| Sentence lest in any manner | C |
| It misrepresent the truth | D |
| Veracity's the charm of youth | D |
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| You will not I know tell lies | E |
| If you know what you are speaking | F |
| Truth is shy and from us flies | E |
| Unless diligently seeking | F |
| Into every word we pry | G |
| Falsehood will her place supply | G |
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| Falsehood is not shy not she | H |
| Ever ready to take place of | I |
| Truth too oft we Falsehood see | H |
| Or at least some latent trace of | I |
| Falsehood in the incorrect | J |
| Words of those who Truth respect | J |
Charles Lamb
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