Jest 'fore Christmas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGHDD IIJJKKDD AALLMMDD NNOOPPDD| Father calls me William sister calls me Will | A |
| Mother calls me Willie but the fellers call me Bill | A |
| Mighty glad I ain't a girl ruther be a boy | B |
| Without them sashes curls an' things that's worn by Fauntleroy | B |
| Love to chawnk green apples an' go swimmin' in the lake | C |
| Hate to take the castor ile they give for bellyache | C |
| 'Most all the time the whole year round there ain't no flies on me | D |
| But jest 'fore Christmas I'm as good as I kin be | D |
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| Got a yeller dog named Sport sick him on the cat | E |
| First thing she knows she doesn't know where she is at | E |
| Got a clipper sled an' when us kids goes out to slide | F |
| 'Long comes the grocery cart an' we all hook a ride | F |
| But sometimes when the grocery man is worrited an' cross | G |
| He reaches at us with his whip an' larrups up his hoss | H |
| An' then I laff an' holler Oh ye never teched me | D |
| But jest 'fore Christmas I'm as good as I kin be | D |
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| Gran'ma says she hopes that when I git to be a man | I |
| I'll be a missionarer like her oldest brother Dan | I |
| As was et up by the cannibuls that lives in Ceylon's Isle | J |
| Where every prospeck pleases an' only man is vile | J |
| But gran'ma she has never been to see a Wild West show | K |
| Nor read the Life of Daniel Boone or else I guess she'd know | K |
| That Buff'lo Bill an' cow boys is good enough for me | D |
| Excep' jest 'fore Christmas when I'm good as I kin be | D |
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| And then old Sport he hangs around so solemn like an' still | A |
| His eyes they seem a sayin' What's the matter little Bill | A |
| The old cat sneaks down off her perch an' wonders what's become | L |
| Of them two enemies of hern that used to make things hum | L |
| But I am so perlite an' 'tend so earnestly to biz | M |
| That mother says to father How improved our Willie is | M |
| But father havin' been a boy hisself suspicions me | D |
| When jest 'fore Christmas I'm as good as I kin be | D |
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| For Christmas with its lots an' lots of candies cakes an' toys | N |
| Was made they say for proper kids an' not for naughty boys | N |
| So wash yer face an' bresh yer hair an' mind yer p's and q's | O |
| An' don't bust out yer pantaloons and don't wear out yer shoes | O |
| Say Yessum to the ladies an' Yessur to the men | P |
| An' when they's company don't pass yer plate for pie again | P |
| But thinkin' of the things yer'd like to see upon that tree | D |
| Jest 'fore Christmas be as good as yer kin be | D |
Eugene Field
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