Why I Went To The Foot Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB CCDC EFGH IJKJ LMCM INGN COCO| Was ever a maiden so worried | A |
| I'll admit I am partial to Jim | B |
| For Jimmie has promised to wed me | C |
| When I'm old enough to wed him | B |
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| But then I love teacher too dearly | C |
| She's always so lovely to me | C |
| And she's pretty and kind and sweet tempered | D |
| And gentle as gentle can be | C |
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| I wouldn't for worlds hurt Jim's feelings | E |
| For he never would like me again | F |
| But there was my dearest sweet teacher | G |
| And I'd die if my words gave her pain | H |
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| Two plus two equals what was the problem | I |
| And I knew teacher thought it made four | J |
| But Jimmie said six and maintained it | K |
| As long as he stood on the floor | J |
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| And I saw I must soon choose between them | L |
| For I was the next in the line | M |
| Should I side with my teacher or Jimmie | C |
| What a sad situation was mine | M |
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| And just as my heart with that problem | I |
| Of friendship was so sorely vexed | N |
| I was called on to answer the other | G |
| For teacher had said sharply Next | N |
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| It was then that the brilliant thought struck me | C |
| That by compromise I could contrive | O |
| To hurt neither teacher nor Jimmie | C |
| And that's how I came to say five | O |
Ellis Parker Butler
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