Nothing To Laugh At Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEE FFGGHIJJAA KKLLAAKKAA MMLLAAGGAA| by a bumble bee | A |
| An' your nose wuz swelled an' it smarted too | B |
| You wouldn't want people to laugh at you | B |
| If you had a lump that wuz full of fire | C |
| Like you'd been touched by a red hot wire | C |
| An' your nose spread out like a load of hay | D |
| You wouldn't want strangers who come your way | D |
| To ask you to let 'em see the place | E |
| An' laugh at you right before your face | E |
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| What's funny about it I'd like to know | F |
| It isn't a joke to be hurted so | F |
| An' how wuz I ever on earth to tell | G |
| 'At the pretty flower which I stooped to smell | G |
| In our backyard wuz the very one | H |
| Which a bee wuz busily working on | I |
| An' jus' as I got my nose down there | J |
| He lifted his foot an' kicked for fair | J |
| An' he planted his stinger right into me | A |
| But it's nothin' to laugh at as I can see | A |
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| I let out a yell an' my Maw came out | K |
| To see what the trouble wuz all about | K |
| She says from my shriek she wuz sure 'at I | L |
| Had been struck by a motor car passin' by | L |
| But when she found what the matter wuz | A |
| She laughed just like ever'body does | A |
| An' she made me stand while she poked about | K |
| To pull his turrible stinger out | K |
| An' my Pa laughed too when he looked at me | A |
| But it's nothin' to laugh at as I can see | A |
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| My Maw put witch hazel on the spot | M |
| To take down the swellin' but it has not | M |
| It seems to git bigger as time goes by | L |
| An' I can't see good out o' this one eye | L |
| An' it hurts clean down to my very toes | A |
| Whenever I've got to blow my nose | A |
| An' all I can say is when this gits well | G |
| There ain't any flowers I'll stoop to smell | G |
| I'm through disturbin' a bumble bee | A |
| But it's nothin' to laugh at as I can see | A |
Edgar Albert Guest
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