Guess Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EAEAFDFD GHGHIDID AJAJKDKD| There is a certain Yankee phrase | A |
| I always have revered | B |
| Yet somehow in these modern days | A |
| It's almost disappeared | B |
| It was the usage years ago | C |
| But nowadays it's got | D |
| To be regarded coarse and low | C |
| To answer I guess not | D |
| - | |
| The height of fashion called the pink | E |
| Affects a British craze | A |
| Prefers I fancy or I think | E |
| To that time honored phrase | A |
| But here's a Yankee if you please | F |
| That brands the fashion rot | D |
| And to all heresies like these | F |
| He answers I guess not | D |
| - | |
| When Chaucer Wycliff and the rest | G |
| Express their meaning thus | H |
| I guess if not the very best | G |
| It's good enough for us | H |
| Why shall the idioms of our speech | I |
| Be banished and forgot | D |
| For this vain trash which moderns teach | I |
| Well no sir I guess not | D |
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| There's meaning in that homely phrase | A |
| No other words express | J |
| No substitute therefor conveys | A |
| Such unobtrusive stress | J |
| True Anglo Saxon speech it goes | K |
| Directly to the spot | D |
| And he who hears it always knows | K |
| The worth of I guess not | D |
Eugene Field
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