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