The Two Little Skeezucks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEED FAFAGGHIH FEFEGJKKJ LMLMBBEFE NENEFOPPO KEKEKKKKK QEQERSTTS SESEUUKVK| There were two little skeezucks who lived in the isle | A |
| Of Boo in a southern sea | B |
| They clambered and rollicked in heathenish style | A |
| In the boughs of their cocoanut tree | B |
| They didn't fret much about clothing and such | C |
| And they recked not a whit of the ills | D |
| That sometimes accrue | E |
| From having to do | E |
| With tailor and laundry bills | D |
| - | |
| The two little skeezucks once heard of a Fair | F |
| Far off from their native isle | A |
| And they asked of King Fan if they mightn't go there | F |
| To take in the sights for awhile | A |
| Now old King Fan | G |
| Was a good natured man | G |
| As good natured monarchs go | H |
| And howbeit he swore that all Fairs were a bore | I |
| He hadn't the heart to say No | H |
| - | |
| So the two little skeezucks sailed off to the Fair | F |
| In a great big gum canoe | E |
| And I fancy they had a good time there | F |
| For they tarried a year or two | E |
| And old King Fan at last began | G |
| To reckon they'd come to grief | J |
| When glory one day | K |
| They sailed into the bay | K |
| To the tune of Hail to the Chief | J |
| - | |
| The two little skeezucks fell down on the sand | L |
| Embracing his majesty's toes | M |
| Till his majesty graciously bade them stand | L |
| And salute him nose to nose | M |
| And then quoth he | B |
| Divulge unto me | B |
| What happenings have hapt to you | E |
| And how did they dare to indulge in a Fair | F |
| So far from the island of Boo | E |
| - | |
| The two little skeezucks assured their king | N |
| That what he surmised was true | E |
| That the Fair would have been a different thing | N |
| Had it only been held in Boo | E |
| The folk over there in no wise compare | F |
| With the folk of the southern seas | O |
| Why they comb out their heads | P |
| And they sleep in beds | P |
| Instead of in caverns and trees | O |
| - | |
| The two little skeezucks went on to say | K |
| That children so far as they knew | E |
| Had a much harder time in that land far away | K |
| Than here in the island of Boo | E |
| They have to wear clo'es | K |
| Which as every one knows | K |
| Are irksome to primitive laddies | K |
| While with forks and with spoons they're denied the sweet boons | K |
| That accrue from free use of one's paddies | K |
| - | |
| And now that you're speaking of things to eat | Q |
| Interrupted the monarch of Boo | E |
| We beg to inquire if you happened to meet | Q |
| With a nice missionary or two | E |
| No that we did not in that curious spot | R |
| Where were gathered the fruits of the earth | S |
| Of that special kind | T |
| Which Your Nibs has in mind | T |
| There appeared a deplorable dearth | S |
| - | |
| Then loud laughed that monarch in heathenish mirth | S |
| And loud laughed his courtiers too | E |
| And they cried There is elsewhere no land upon earth | S |
| So good as our island of Boo | E |
| And the skeezucks tho' glad | U |
| Of the journey they'd had | U |
| Climbed up in their cocoanut trees | K |
| Where they still may be seen with no shirts to keep clean | V |
| Or trousers that bag at the knees | K |
Eugene Field
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