Warning The Carpenter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EECCFFCC FFGGHH CCIJFF| SAY Mister Carpenter you know you got me spanked last night | A |
| I guess your Pa and Ma forgot to teach you what was right | A |
| An' I can't come here any more to watch you build that fence | B |
| Coz my Pa says a man like you ain't got a bit of sense | B |
| You 'member yesterday when you was nailing up a board | C |
| An' hit your thumb an awful whack the drefful things you swored | C |
| Well I felt sorry for you then coz I am only three | D |
| An' I supposed 'at what you said would be all right for me | D |
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| Las' night I was a playin' wif my hammer an' a box | E |
| An' hit my thumb jus' like you did two terrible hard knocks | E |
| My Ma an' Pa were standing near an' bofe of 'em turned red | C |
| When I let loose an' said out loud the drefful things you said | C |
| You never told me it was wrong it seemed to comfort you | F |
| An' when I hit my thumb I s'posed it was all right to do | F |
| But you will never get to be an angel when you die | C |
| Becoz you used such wicked words an' let your temper fly | C |
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| My Pa he took me on his knee an' spanked me for it too | F |
| An' Ma she jus' sat down an' cried the whole long evenin' through | F |
| She says there ought to be a law to keep bad men away | G |
| From decent neighborhoods like ours where little children play | G |
| You let me get a wallopin' An' I don't think it fair | H |
| Say Ain't you got no Pa an' Ma to teach you not to swear | H |
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| It's all your fault that I got licked an' Ma says when you die | C |
| There ain't a goin' to be no place for you up in the sky | C |
| An' Pa says 'at you ought to know 'at little fellow's ears | I |
| Pick up the things that bad men say An' if he ever hears | J |
| That I've been hangin' round this place he don't know what he'll do | F |
| I guess he'll tell your Pa an' Ma an' you'll get walloped too | F |
Edgar Albert Guest
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