My Word! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCBBBD AEAEFF GG HIJIKKBBL| You can tyke h'it from me 'e's as cool as a cucumber | A |
| Never goes balmy h'or loses 'is 'ead | B |
| Nothing h'at all h'ever robs 'im of slumber | A |
| Once when I told 'im 'is rich h'aunt was dead | B |
| 'E looked h'at me blandly | C |
| H'and stryngely h'and grandly | C |
| H'and stroked 'is moustache as though 'e 'adn't 'eard | B |
| Flicked a speck h'off 'is coat | B |
| H'and then cleared h'out 'is throat | B |
| H'and put on 'is topper remarking 'My word ' | D |
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| Cool h'as an h'oyster along h'in December | A |
| Once h'I was riding with 'im h'in a tryne | E |
| The detyles h'I cannot h'exactly remember | A |
| But something went wrong with th' bally h'old line | E |
| There cyme a great crash | F |
| H'and a 'orrible smash | F |
| H'I shouted at once 'Something h'orful's h'ocurred ' | - |
| 'E 'eard women crying | G |
| H'and looked h'at the dying | G |
| H'and cooly survying the scene said 'My word ' | - |
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| Larst week 'is h'old 'omestead was burned down to h'ashes | H |
| H'and while h'it was burning they notified 'im | I |
| The firemen were shouting h'and myking mad dashes | J |
| To resue 'is wife but their charnces were slim | I |
| At larst through the smoke | K |
| There h'appeared h'a bryve bloke | K |
| With 'is wife h'in 'is arms h'an' they slowly descended | B |
| Then did 'e go dotty | B |
| With h'ectasy Not 'e | L |
| 'E merely remarked 'O my word that h'is splendid ' | - |
Edgar Albert Guest
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