Contrary Sary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDE FFFFG HHDDI JJGG| There's no sense arguin' with 'em ' says Ebenezer Gates | A |
| You can't convince the women that they ain't fit fer votes | B |
| There's Sary got the notion that she's as good as man | C |
| An' I can't show her diff'runt an' no man livin' can | C |
| She's most bnreasonubbel 'Now I suppose ' says she | D |
| 'If I got drunk each evenin' ye'd think lots more o' me ' | E |
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| 'She's so consarn contrary she won't talk common sense | F |
| She flies right off the handle the minute I commence | F |
| 'Of course we ain't men's equals ' says Sary 'if we wuz | F |
| We'd hang around some barroom the way Jim Pilzer does | F |
| We'd soak ourselves with liquor an' guzzle down our pay | G |
| An' show ourselves your equals in some sich manly way ' | - |
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| 'Now what's the use of reason when women talk like that | H |
| Ye might as well keep silent With facts I knock her flat | H |
| But when I git her cornered she smiles an' says t' me | D |
| 'Hank Foss has been arrested He beat his family | D |
| The neighbors have his children his wife is sick in bed | I |
| The ballot ain't fer wimmin it's kep' fer Hank instead ' | - |
| 'It really is a caution how foolish she's become | J |
| 'I wisht I knew enough ' says she 't' be a village bum | J |
| I wisht I had the brain power t' loaf around all day | G |
| An' see my children barefoot but I ain't built that way | G |
Edgar Albert Guest
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