The Discontented Manicure Scissors Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBA CCDDC EFFE GGHHG| Said the manicure scissors one day | A |
| 'The shears always have their own way | A |
| And I think it absurd | B |
| That I am deterred | B |
| From entering into life's fray | A |
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| My task might be jolly for snails | C |
| But I must confess that it fails | C |
| To give pleasure to me | D |
| I am sick as can be | D |
| Of snipping the ends of pink nails | C |
| - | |
| I want to do work like the shears ' | - |
| So the scissors set out it appears | E |
| And very much wroth | F |
| They tried to cut cloth | F |
| And so split themselves open my dears | E |
| - | |
| And the cloth well you should have seen that | G |
| It looked as if gnawed by a rat | G |
| Now little folks you | H |
| Must not think you can do | H |
| Whatever your elders are at | G |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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