Ma And Her Checkbook Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFECGHGIJKL MNONPQJQIRSRIJI THUHDVWVXYZYA2JIMa has a dandy little book that's full of narrow | A |
slips | B |
An' when she wants to pay a bill a page from | C |
it she rips | B |
She just writes in the dollars and the cents and | D |
signs her name | E |
An' that's as good as money though it doesn't | F |
look the same | E |
When she wants another bonnet or some | C |
feathers for her neck | G |
She promptly goes an' gets 'em an' she writes | H |
another check | G |
I don't just understand it but I know she | I |
sputters when | J |
Pa says to her at supper 'Well You're | K |
overdrawn again ' | L |
- | |
Ma's not a business woman she is much too | M |
kind of heart | N |
To squabble over pennies or to play a selfish | O |
part | N |
An' when someone asks for money she's not | P |
one to stop an' think | Q |
Of a little piece of paper an' the cost of pen | J |
an' ink | Q |
She just tells him very sweetly if he'll only | I |
wait a bit | R |
An' be seated in the parlor she will write a | S |
check for it | R |
She can write one out for twenty just as easily | I |
as ten | J |
An' forgets that Pa may grumble 'Well | I |
you're overdrawn again ' | - |
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Pa says it looks as though he'll have to start in | T |
workin' nights | H |
To gather in the money for the checks that | U |
mother writes | H |
He says that every morning when he's summoned | D |
to the phone | V |
He's afraid the bank is calling to make mother's | W |
shortage known | V |
He tells his friends if ever anything our fortune | X |
wrecks | Y |
They can trace it to the moment mother started | Z |
writing checks | Y |
He's got so that he trembles when he sees her | A2 |
fountain pen | J |
An' he mutters 'Do be careful You'll be | I |
overdrawn again ' | - |
Edgar Albert Guest
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