Ma And The Ouija Board Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEE FFAAE G H E FFI J Eto know | A |
If spirits in the other world can really talk to us below | A |
An' Pa says 'Gosh there's folks enough on earth to talk to I should | B |
think | C |
Without you pesterin' the folks whose souls have gone across the brink ' | D |
But Ma she wants to find out things an' study on her own accord | E |
An' so a month or two ago she went an' bought a ouija board | E |
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It's just a shiny piece of wood with letters printed here an' there | F |
An' has a little table which you put your fingers on with care | F |
An' then you sit an' whisper low some question that you want to know | A |
Then by an' by the spirit comes an' makes the little table go | A |
An' Ma she starts to giggle then an' Pa just grumbles out 'Oh Lord | E |
I wish you hadn't bought this thing We didn't need a ouija board ' | - |
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'You're movin' it ' says Ma to Pa 'I'm not ' says Pa 'I know it's you | G |
You're makin' it spell things to us that you know very well aren't true ' | - |
'That isn't so ' says Ma to him 'but I am certain from the way | H |
The ouija moves that you're the one who's tellin' it just what to say ' | - |
'It's just 'lectricity ' says Pa 'like batteries all men are stored | E |
But anyhow I don't believe we ought to have a ouija board ' | - |
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One night Ma got it out an' said 'Now Pa I want you to be fair | F |
Just keep right still an' let your hands rest lightly on the table there | F |
Oh Ouija tell me tell me true are we to buy another car | I |
An' will we get it very soon ' she asked 'Oh tell us from afar ' | - |
'Don't buy a car ' the letters spelled 'the price this year you can't | J |
afford ' | - |
Then Ma got mad an' since that time she's never used the ouija board | E |
Edgar Albert Guest
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