George Jones Wonders Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MNMNHAHA| 'When I was young ' said old George Jones | A |
| And rumbling from his bearded lips | B |
| His deep voice boomed in measured tones | A |
| Them airyplanes an' motor ships | B |
| Was never knowed in that far day | C |
| The wind blown craft that roamed the sea | D |
| The stout draught horse the bullock dray | C |
| Was quick enough for me like me | D |
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| 'We lived and toiled and fared not ill | E |
| Life was a thing to be enjoyed | F |
| We sold out crops and ate our fill | E |
| And heard few tales of unemployed | F |
| But lately like some secret flame | G |
| This world beheld a puzzling thing | H |
| Peace progress plenty yet too came | G |
| Want idleness and suffering | H |
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| 'I asked a wine man from the town | I |
| Why 'mid these riches such ills are | J |
| 'Bad transport ' said he with a frown | I |
| And went off in his motor car | J |
| I watched him racing down the road | K |
| To where 'mid modern haste and fret | L |
| This new world's tangled traffic flowed | K |
| And scatched my head more puzzled yet | L |
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| 'Men say that times be mending now | M |
| Maybe But still they don't explain | N |
| This thing that worries me somehow | M |
| The more we get the less we gain | N |
| The more ships speed the less they bring | H |
| The more man has the less he owns | A |
| Why darn me 'Tis a crazy thing | H |
| It don't make sense ' said old George Jones | A |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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