Little Ballads Of Timely Warning; Iii: On Laziness And Its Resultant Ills Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBDE AFAF GHGH AIAI AJAJ EAEA AAAA AKLK HHHH MNON P QQ| There was a man in New York City | A |
| His name was George Adolphus Knight | B |
| So soft of heart he wept with pity | A |
| To see our language and its plight | B |
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| He mourned to see it sorely goaded | C |
| With silent letters left and right | B |
| These from his own name he unloaded | D |
| And wrote it Georg Adolfus Nit | E |
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| Six other men in that same city | A |
| Who longed to see a Spelling Heaven | F |
| Formed of themselves a strong committee | A |
| And asked Georg Nit to make it seven | F |
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| He joined the other six with pleasure | G |
| Proud such important men to know | H |
| Agreeing that their first great measure | G |
| Should be to shorten the word though | H |
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| But G Adolfus Nit was lazy | A |
| He dilly dallied every day | I |
| His life was dreamy slow and hazy | A |
| And indolent in every way | I |
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| On Monday morn at nine precisely | A |
| The six reformers Nit not there | J |
| Prepared to simplify though nicely | A |
| And each was eager for his share | J |
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| Smith bit the h off short and ate it | E |
| Griggs from the thoug chewed off the g | A |
| Brown snapped off u to masticate it | E |
| And tho alone was left for three | A |
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| Delancy's teeth broke o off quickly | A |
| From th Billings took his t | A |
| And then the h albeit prickly | A |
| Was shortly swallowed by McGee | A |
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| This done the six lay back in plenty | A |
| Well fed they picked their teeth and smiled | K |
| And lazy Nit about | L |
| Strolled in as careless as a child | K |
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| Well boys he said where's the collation | H |
| I'm hungry let us eat some though | H |
| All gone they said and then Starvation | H |
| Who is not lazy laid Nit low | H |
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| Nit trembled gasped and as the phrase is | M |
| Cashed in his checks gave up his breath | N |
| And turned his toes up to the daisies | O |
| His laziness had caused his death | N |
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| Warning | P |
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| Spelling reformers should make haste | Q |
| If each reformer wants a taste | Q |
Ellis Parker Butler
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