The Glorious Fourth And Its Memories Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDDEE FFGG HIJJKK AALL MMNNEE OOPP QQRSEE| Have you ever mused in silence upon a summer's day | A |
| And let your thoughts run riot and your feelings have full sway | A |
| As you sprawled full length upon the grass in some secluded dell | B |
| And breathed the balmy country air and smelt the country smell | B |
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| Then as you muse | C |
| And gently snooze | C |
| Between thinks | D |
| You remember those jinks | D |
| When spirits were high | E |
| On the Fourth of July | E |
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| There was little Willie Browning the worst of all the boys | F |
| Who had a sure nuff cannon that made all kinds of noise | F |
| And when the cannon wouldn't go he blew into the muzzle | G |
| But what became of Willie's teeth has always been a puzzle | G |
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| How the folks looked askance | H |
| At the seats of our pants | I |
| When those giant skyrockets | J |
| Went off in our pockets | J |
| Gee whiz | K |
| What fun the Fourth is | K |
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| When the red hot July sun began to wink the clouds away | A |
| We were out with whoops and shoutings to celebrate the day | A |
| With piece of punk in one hand and crackers in the other | L |
| We would troop home later in the day for linseed oil and mother | L |
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| But our burns | M |
| Were small concerns | M |
| Our hearts were light | N |
| Injuries slight | N |
| Not even a sigh | E |
| On the Fourth of July | E |
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| And as you lie and ponder the thought comes home to you | O |
| That your youngest boy now celebrates the way you used to do | O |
| And the mother that he bawls for to have those small wounds dressed | P |
| Is the woman whom long years ago you swore you loved the best | P |
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| But what funny things | Q |
| Memory brings | Q |
| Who would have thought | R |
| That I would be caught | S |
| With a tear in my eye | E |
| On the Fourth of July | E |
Edwin C. Ranck
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