Picnic-time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEDDFFDD GGHHGGDD| It's June ag'in an' in my soul I feel the fillin' joy | A |
| That's sure to come this time o' year to every little boy | A |
| For every June the Sunday schools at picnics may be seen | B |
| Where fields beyont the swellin' floods stand dressed in livin' green | B |
| Where little girls are skeered to death with spiders bugs and ants | C |
| An' little boys get grass stains on their go to meetin' pants | C |
| It's June ag'in an' with it all what happiness is mine | D |
| There's goin' to be a picnic an' I'm goin' to jine | D |
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| One year I jined the Baptists an' goodness how it rained | E |
| But grampa says that that's the way baptizo is explained | E |
| And once I jined the 'Piscopils an' had a heap o' fun | D |
| But the boss of all the picnics was the Presbyteriun | D |
| They had so many puddin's sallids sandwidges an' pies | F |
| That a feller wisht his stummick was as hungry as his eyes | F |
| Oh yes the eatin' Presbyteriuns give yer is so fine | D |
| That when they have a picnic you bet I'm goin' to jine | D |
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| But at this time the Methodists have special claims on me | G |
| For they're goin' to give a picnic on the st D V | G |
| Why should a liberal universalist like me object | H |
| To share the joys of fellowship with every friendly sect | H |
| However het'rodox their articles of faith elsewise may be | G |
| Their doctrine of fried chick'n is a savin' grace to me | G |
| So on the st of June the weather bein' fine | D |
| They're goin' to give a picnic and I'm goin' to jine | D |
Eugene Field
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