Poet Eugene Field

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Little Mack Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDED FFGGHHDID JKLLLLDLD MMNNOODND NNOOPPDQD NNNNNNDRD

This talk about the journalists that run the East is boshA
We've got a Western editor that's little but O goshA
He lives here in Mizzoora where the people are so setB
In ante bellum notions that they vote for Jackson yetB
But the paper he is running makes the rusty fossils swearC
The smartest likeliest paper that is printed anywhereC
And best of all the paragraphs are pointed as a tackD
And that's because they emanateE
From little MackD
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In architecture he is what you'd call a chunky manF
As if he'd been constructed on the summer cottage planF
He has a nose like Bonaparte and round his mobile mouthG
Lies all the sensuous languor of the children of the SouthG
His dealings with reporters who affect a weekly bustH
Have given to his violet eyes a shadow of distrustH
In glorious abandon his brown hair wanders backD
From the grand Websterian foreheadI
Of little MackD
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No matter what the item is if there's an item in itJ
You bet your life he's on to it and nips it in a minuteK
From multifarious nations countries monarchies and landsL
From Afric's sunny fountains and India's coral strandsL
From Greenland's icy mountains and Siloam's shady rillsL
He gathers in his telegrams and Houser pays the billsL
What though there be a dearth of news he has a happy knackD
Of scraping up a lot of scoopsL
Does little MackD
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And learning Well he knows the folks of every tribe and ageM
That ever played a part upon this fleeting human stageM
His intellectual system's so extensive and so greedyN
That when it comes to records he's a walkin' cyclopedyN
For having studied and digested all the books a goin'O
It stands to reason he must know about all's worth a knowin'O
So when a politician with a record's on the trackD
We're apt to hear some historyN
From little MackD
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And when a fellow journalist is broke and needs a twentyN
Who's allus ready to whack up a portion of his plentyN
Who's allus got a wallet that's as full of sordid gainO
As his heart is full of kindness and his head is full of brainO
Whose bowels of compassion will in va ri a bly moveP
Their owner to those courtesies which plainly surely proveP
That he's the kind of person that never does go backD
On a fellow that's in troubleQ
Why little MackD
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I've heard 'em tell of Dana and of Bonner and of ReidN
Of Johnnie Cockerill who I'll own is very smart indeedN
Yet I don't care what their renown or influence may beN
One metropolitan exchange is quite enough for meN
So keep your Danas Bonners Reids your Cockerills and the restN
The woods is full of better men all through this woolly WestN
For all that sleek pretentious Eastern editorial packD
We wouldn't swap the shadow ofR
Our little MackD

Eugene Field



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