Little Ballads Of Timely Warning; Ii: Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBC DCDDC EDEED FBFFB GHGGH IDII D J DD| Little Ballads Of Timely Warning II On Malicious Cruelty To Harmless Creatures | A |
| The cruelty of P L Brown | B |
| He had ten toes as good as mine | C |
| Was known to every one in town | B |
| And if he never harmed a noun | B |
| He loved to make verbs shriek and whine | C |
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| The 'To be' family s just complaints | D |
| Brown had ten toes as good as mine | C |
| Made Brown cast off the last restraints | D |
| He smashed the 'Is nots' into 'Ain ts' | D |
| And kicked both mood and tense supine | C |
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| Infinitives were Brown s dislike | E |
| Brown as I said had ten good toes | D |
| And he would pinch and shake and strike | E |
| Infinitives or with a pike | E |
| Prod them and then laugh at their woes | D |
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| At length this Brown more cruel grew | F |
| Ten toes all good ones then had Brown | B |
| And to his woodshed door he drew | F |
| A young infinitive and threw | F |
| The poor meek creature roughly down | B |
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| And while the poor thing weakly flopped | G |
| Brown ten good toes he had the brute | H |
| Got out his chopping block and dropped | G |
| The martyr on it and then propped | G |
| His victim firmly with his boot | H |
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| He raised his axe He brandished it | I |
| Ye gods of grammar interpose | D |
| He brought it down full force all fit | I |
| The poor infinitive to split | I |
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| Brown after that had but six toes | D |
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| Warning | J |
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| Infinitives by this we see | D |
| Should not he split too recklessly | D |
Ellis Parker Butler
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