A Plea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACDD EFEFACA G GGAEA ABACACWriters of baseball attention | A |
When you're again on the job | B |
When in your rage for invention | A |
You with the language play hob | B |
Most of your dope we will pardon | A |
Though of the moth ball it smack | C |
But cut out the 'sinister garden ' | D |
Chop the 'initial sack ' | D |
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Rake poor old Roget's 'Thesaurus' | E |
For phrases fantastic and queer | F |
And though on occasions you bore us | E |
We will refrain from a sneer | F |
We will endeavour to harden | A |
Ourselves to the rest of your clack | C |
If you'll cut out the 'sinister garden' | A |
And chop the 'initial sack ' | - |
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Singers of words that are scrambled | G |
Say if you will that he 'died ' | - |
Write if you must that he 'ambled' | G |
We shall be last to deride | G |
But us to the Forest of Arden | A |
Along with the misanthrope Jaques | E |
If you cling to the 'sinister garden' | A |
And stick to 'initial sack ' | - |
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Speak of the 'sphere's aberration ' | - |
Mention the 'leathery globe ' | - |
Say he got 'free transportation' | A |
Though that try the patience of Job | B |
But if you're wise you'll discard en | A |
Cumbrances such as we thwack | C |
Especially 'sinister garden' | A |
And the 'initial sack | C |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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