The Germ Chaser Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBAACCDD EEFFGGHIJJKK BBA LLMMNNOO PPQQRRSTUUVV| I knew a careful lady once | A |
| Who read a book by Dr Bunce | A |
| A wise authority on wogs | A |
| That roam about in dust and fogs | A |
| Indeed he pointed out all air | B |
| However pure held germs somewhere | B |
| They clung to door knobs crawled on floors | A |
| Inhabited small change in scores | A |
| In fact there scarcely was a thing | C |
| To which some foul germ did not cling | C |
| Ready to leap and work its will | D |
| To some poor luckless human's ill | D |
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| The lady closed the book and sighed | E |
| And all content within her died | E |
| This pleasant earth for her became | F |
| The haunt of wogs and life a game | F |
| Of hide and seek She joined the band | G |
| Of grim germ chasers in the land | G |
| She scoured and scrubbed examined food | H |
| Which thus far was all to the good | I |
| But when she strove to disinfect | J |
| Her home 'twas worse than mild neglect | J |
| No hospital smelled half so bad | K |
| And then I fear she went quite mad | K |
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| Her eye took on a maniac glare | B |
| She saw germs lurking everywhere | B |
| She hung up mottoes such as this | A |
| 'Ten thousand germs in every kiss ' | - |
| She would not handle coins or take | L |
| Another's hand for friendship's sake | L |
| Scarce dared to eat or draw a breath | M |
| For fear she might imbibe her death | M |
| She sprayed her husband heels to head | N |
| With crude carbolic till he fled | N |
| But since she had means of her own | O |
| She much preferred to live alone | O |
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| When going into town one day | P |
| Wrapped up and muzzled in a way | P |
| Quite microbe proof from foot to crown | Q |
| A passing motor knocked her down | Q |
| And where she's sleeping soundly now | R |
| The germs have got her anyhow | R |
| The point of this sad tale is here | S |
| Better be dead than live in fear | T |
| Better live like a Stone Age man | U |
| Before germ consciousness began | U |
| Better take chances seems to me | V |
| Than try to dodge what you can't see | V |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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