To His Book Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDECC FGFGCC HIHICC JKJKCC| You vain self conscious little book | A |
| Companion of my happy days | B |
| How eagerly you seem to look | A |
| For wider fields to spread your lays | B |
| My desk and locks cannot contain you | C |
| Nor blush of modesty restrain you | C |
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| Well then begone fool that thou art | D |
| But do not come to me and cry | E |
| When critics strike you to the heart | D |
| Oh wretched little book am I | E |
| You know I tried to educate you | C |
| To shun the fate that must await you | C |
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| In youth you may encounter friends | F |
| Pray this prediction be not wrong | G |
| But wait until old age descends | F |
| And thumbs have smeared your gentlest song | G |
| Then will the moths connive to eat you | C |
| And rural libraries secrete you | C |
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| However should a friend some word | H |
| Of my obscure career request | I |
| Tell him how deeply I was stirred | H |
| To spread my wings beyond the nest | I |
| Take from my years which are before you | C |
| To boom my merits I implore you | C |
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| Tell him that I am short and fat | J |
| Quick in my temper soon appeased | K |
| With locks of gray but what of that | J |
| Loving the sun with nature pleased | K |
| I'm more than four and forty hark you | C |
| But ready for a night off mark you | C |
Eugene Field
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