The Ah Goo Tongue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD DDEE DDDD DDBB DDFF GGCC| The queerest languages known to man | A |
| Sanscrit Hebrew Hindoostan | A |
| Are all translated and made as free | B |
| And comprehensive as A B C | B |
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| Yet the oldest language talked or sung | C |
| The strange mysterious Ah Goo tongue | C |
| The royal language of Babyland | D |
| No man living can understand | D |
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| Every soul in the world to day | D |
| Was one time anchored in Babyland Bay | D |
| And quarantined there for a year or more | E |
| Before he even could step on shore | E |
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| And everybody in Babyland Bay | D |
| Talks the Ah Goo tongue so people say | D |
| But once on land why not a word | D |
| Do they understand of it when 'tis heard | D |
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| For the fairy rulers of Babyland | D |
| Who guard the kingdom on every hand | D |
| Have willed that no one shall keep the key | B |
| Who crosses into the Grown up Sea | B |
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| So the sweet court language has never been made | D |
| A common parlance of strife or trade | D |
| But is kept in the kingdom where natives come | F |
| Versed in the language of Babydom | F |
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| They are all of them royal and that is how | G |
| The Grown up people all kneel and bow | G |
| When they hear that language talked or sung | C |
| The strange mysterious Ah Goo tongue | C |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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