Tonsils Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEF GGF HHII FFFF| One day the doctor came because my throat was feeling awful sore | A |
| And when he looked inside to see he said 'It's like it was before | A |
| It's tonserlitis sure enough You'd better tell her Pa to day | B |
| To make his mind up now to have that little party right away ' | C |
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| I'd heard him talk that way before when Bud was sick and so I knew | D |
| That what they did to him that time to me they planned to come and do | D |
| An' when my Pa came home that night Ma said 'She can't grow strong | E |
| and stout | F |
| Until the doctor comes an' takes her addynoids an' tonsils out ' | - |
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| An' then Pa took me on his knee and kissed me solemn like an' grave | G |
| An' said he guessed it was the best an' then he asked me to be brave | G |
| Ma said 'Don't look at her like that it's nothing to be scared about' | F |
| An' Pa said 'True but still I wish she needn't have her tonsils out ' | - |
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| Next morning when I woke Ma said I couldn't have my breakfast then | H |
| Because the doctors and the nurse had said they would be here by ten | H |
| When they got here the doctor smiled an' gave me some perfume to smell | I |
| An' told me not to cry at all coz pretty soon I would be well | I |
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| When I woke up Ma smiled an' said 'It's all right now' but in my head | F |
| It seemed like wheels were buzzing round and everywhere I looked was red | F |
| An' I can't eat hard cookies yet nor use my voice at all to shout | F |
| But Pa an' Ma seem awful glad that I have had my tonsils out | F |
Edgar Albert Guest
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