Old Pete Parraday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCD EEFFG HHIIJ KILLMI| Old Pete Paraday his mind works very slow | A |
| But when it fastens on a thoughts he will not let it go | A |
| He measures it and mumbles it until an answer comes | B |
| Just as he mumbles bits and scraps between his toothless gums | B |
| 'I likes to think a bit ' says he 'An' thinkin' by and large | C |
| On these 'ere modrun fashions like 'as fairly riz me garge ' | D |
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| Old Pete Paraday he thinks the joke is rich | E |
| ''Cen TEN ary Cen TEEN ary ' Did ever you 'ear sich | E |
| I never knowed the like ' says he 'sich argymints as those | F |
| The proper word is 'Century ' as any scholard knows | F |
| An' when I makes my century come seven year ahead | G |
| I'll have you call it 'Century ' an' nothin' else instead ' | - |
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| Old Pete Paraday he cackles in high glee | H |
| ''Cen TEN ary Cen TEEN ary ' Ho lahdidah ' says he | H |
| ''Tis these 'ere modrun misses is to blame for all sich rot | I |
| They paints their lips and plucks their brows an' thinks they knows a lot | I |
| But I weren't hatched but yesterdee an' sure as you're alive | J |
| I knows ' says old Pete Paraday 'how many beans make five ' | - |
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| Says old Pete Paraday 'I've thought it up an' down | K |
| An' back an' front an' crossways an' likewise roun' an' round' | I |
| The proper word is 'Century ' an' means one hundred years | L |
| 'Cen TEN ary Cen TEEN ARY ' They fair gits in yer ears | L |
| So when I reach my century you call it just that way | M |
| An' none of your noo fangled stuff ' says old Pete Paraday | I |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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