A New York Child's Garden Of Verses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDEE FFFF GGHD FFIJ KL DDMM| With the usual | A |
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| In winter I get up at night | B |
| And dress by an electric light | B |
| In summer autumn ay and spring | C |
| I have to do the self same thing | C |
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| I have to go to bed and hear | D |
| Pianos pounding in my ear | D |
| And hear the janitor cavort | E |
| With garbage cans within the court | E |
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| And does it not seem hard to you | F |
| That I should have these things to do | F |
| Is it not hard for us Manhat | F |
| Tan children in a stuffy flat | F |
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| II | - |
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| It is very nice to think | G |
| The world is full of food and drink | G |
| But oh my father says to me | H |
| They cost all of his salaree | D |
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| III | - |
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| When I am grown to man's estate | F |
| I shall be very proud and great | F |
| E'en now I have no reverence | I |
| 'Cause I read comic supplements | J |
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| IV | - |
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| New York is so full of a number of kids | K |
| I'm sure pretty soon we shall be invalids | L |
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| V | - |
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| A child should always say what's true | D |
| And speak when he is spoken to | D |
| And then when manhood's age he strikes | M |
| He may be boorish as he likes | M |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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