Millennium Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABABBCBC ABABBCBC ACAC| The great millennium is at hand | A |
| Redder apples grow on the tree | B |
| A saxophone is in ev'ry band | A |
| Brandy no longer taints our tea | B |
| Dimples smile in the red rouged knee | B |
| The dowagers are no longer fat | C |
| Radio now makes safe the sea | B |
| And the Turk has bought him a derby hat | C |
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| Even our sauerkraut now is canned | A |
| Verse is a dangsight more than free | B |
| A highboy now is the old dish stand | A |
| Ev'ry flapper has her night key | B |
| Chopin is jazzed into melody | B |
| A child is a kiddie and not a brat | C |
| Bosses and miners at last agree | B |
| And the Turk has bought him a derby hat | C |
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| All firewaters are bravely banned | A |
| There is a ballot for every she | B |
| The hairpin now is a contraband | A |
| A New York mayor gets some sympathy | B |
| My dealer brings some coal to me | B |
| The plumber is an aristocrat | C |
| In Miami all millionaires may be | B |
| And the Turk has bought him a derby hat | C |
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| Son the millennium is at hand | A |
| What though Armenians be mashed flat | C |
| The world is getting just perfectly grand | A |
| For the Turk has bought him a derby hat | C |
Ellis Parker Butler
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