The Boys' And Girls' Thanksgiving Of 1892 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB CDCD EFEF EGEG HIHI JFJF CKCK CLCL CMCN OPOP QBQB| Never since the race was started | A |
| Had a boy in any clime | B |
| Cause to be so thankful hearted | A |
| As the boys of present time | B |
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| Not a girl in old times living | C |
| Let the world talk as it may | B |
| Found such reasons for Thanksgiving | C |
| As the girls who live to day | B |
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| Grandmas in their corners sitting | C |
| Toiling till the day grew late | D |
| What knew they with endless knitting | C |
| Of the jolly roller skate | D |
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| Grandpas sitting by the fender | E |
| Reading by the faggots' blaze | F |
| What knew they of modern splendor | E |
| Found in incandescent rays | F |
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| Where they toiled in bitter weather | E |
| Braving rain and snow and sleet | G |
| Gathering sticks of wood together | E |
| We have radiators' heat | G |
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| But these fruits of modern science | H |
| They first planted seed by seed | I |
| In their strength and self reliance | H |
| We may find a noble creed | I |
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| With the dawn of great inventions | J |
| Came the anti warring days | F |
| Men are sick of armed contentions | J |
| God be thanked with heart felt praise | F |
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| Once a boy was trained for fighting | C |
| Now the world is better taught | K |
| 'Tis an age when wrongs are righting | C |
| By the force of common thought | K |
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| Once a girl was trained for sewing | C |
| Spinning knitting nothing more | L |
| She must never think of knowing | C |
| Aught of things outside her door | L |
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| If she soared above her spinning | C |
| If she sought a life more broad | M |
| She was looked upon as sinning | C |
| 'Gainst the laws of man and God | N |
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| Now a girl is taught she's human | O |
| Brain and body soul and heart | P |
| All are needed by the woman | O |
| Who to day would play her part | P |
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| Swift and sure the world advances | Q |
| Let the critic carp who may | B |
| God be praised for all the chances | Q |
| Boys and girls enjoy to day | B |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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