The Poor Little Toe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHEH IJKJ LMNM EGOGG| I am all tired out said the mouth with a pout | A |
| I am all tired out with talk | B |
| Just wait said the knee till you're lame as you can be | C |
| And then have to walk walk walk | B |
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| My work said the hand is the hardest in the land | D |
| Nay mine is harder yet said the brain | E |
| When you toil said the eye as steadily as I | F |
| O then you'll have reason to complain | E |
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| Then a voice faint and low of the poor little toe | G |
| Spoke out in the dark with a wail | H |
| It is seldom I complain but you all will bear your pain | E |
| With more patience if you hearken to my tale | H |
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| I'm the youngest of five and the others live and thrive | I |
| They are cared for and considered and admired | J |
| I am overlooked and snubbed I am pushed upon and rubbed | K |
| I am always sick and ailing sore and tired | J |
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| But I carry all the weight of the body small or great | L |
| Yet no one ever praises what I do | M |
| I am always in the way and 'tis I who have to pay | N |
| For the folly and the pride of all of you | M |
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| Then the mouth and the brain and the hand said 'tis plain | E |
| Though troubled be our lives with woe | G |
| The hardest lot of all does certainly befall | O |
| The poor little humble little toe | G |
| The snubbed little rubbed little toe | G |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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