The Tin Bank. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDED FGHGICJC KLMLNCOC PCQCRCNC STUTCVWV XVYVZVA2V TB2C2B2NZCZ D2E2F2E2NVCV YVG2VH2YVYSpeaking of banks I'm bound to say | A |
That a bank of tin is far the best | B |
And I know of one that has stood for years | C |
In a pleasant home away out west | B |
It has stood for years on the mantelpiece | C |
Between the clock and the Wedgwood plate | D |
A wonderful bank as you'll concede | E |
When you've heard the things I'll now relate | D |
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This bank was made of McKinley tin | F |
Well soldered up at sides and back | G |
But it didn't resemble tin at all | H |
For they'd painted it over an iron black | G |
And that it really was a bank | I |
'Twas an easy thing to see and say | C |
For above the door in gorgeous red | J |
Appeared the letters B A N K | C |
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The bank had been so well devised | K |
And wrought so cunningly that when | L |
You put your money in at the hole | M |
It couldn't get out of that hole again | L |
Somewhere about that stanch snug thing | N |
A secret spring was hid away | C |
But where it was or how it worked | O |
Excuse me please but I will not say | C |
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Thither with dimpled cheeks aglow | P |
Came pretty children oftentimes | C |
And standing up on stool or chair | Q |
Put in their divers pence and dimes | C |
Once Uncle Hank came home from town | R |
After a cycle of grand events | C |
And put in a round blue ivory thing | N |
He said was good for cents | C |
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The bank went clinkety clinkety clink | S |
And larger grew the precious sum | T |
Which grandma said she hoped would prove | U |
A gracious boon to heathendom | T |
But there were those I call no names | C |
Who did not fancy any plan | V |
That did not in some wise involve | W |
The candy and banana man | V |
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Listen once when the wind went Yooooooo | X |
And the raven croaked in the tangled tarn | V |
When with a wail the screech owl flew | Y |
Out of her lair in the haunted barn | V |
There came three burglars down the road | Z |
Three burglars skilled in arts of sin | V |
And they cried What's this Aha Oho | A2 |
And straightway tackled the bank of tin | V |
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They burgled from half past ten p m | T |
Till the village bell struck four o'clock | B2 |
They hunted and searched and guessed and tried | C2 |
But the little tin bank would not unlock | B2 |
They couldn't discover the secret spring | N |
So when the barn yard rooster crowed | Z |
They up with their tools and stole away | C |
With the bitter remark that they'd be blowed | Z |
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Next morning came a sweet faced child | D2 |
And reached her dimpled hand to take | E2 |
A nickel to send to the heathen poor | F2 |
And a nickel to spend for her stomach's sake | E2 |
She pressed the hidden secret spring | N |
And lo the bank flew open then | V |
With a cheery creak that seemed to say | C |
I'm glad to see you come again | V |
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If you were I and if I were you | Y |
What would we keep our money in | V |
In a downtown bank of British steel | G2 |
Or an at home bank of McKinley tin | V |
Some want silver and some want gold | H2 |
But the little tin bank that wants the two | Y |
And is run on the double standard plan | V |
Why that is the bank for me and you | Y |
Eugene Field
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