A Poor Excuse, But Our Own Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCDE FGFGC HFHFIJ KLKLJJ| Why don't you ever write any child poetry | A |
| A MOTHER | B |
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| My right hand neighbour hath a child | C |
| A pretty child of five or six | D |
| Not more than other children wild | C |
| Nor fuller than the rest of tricks | D |
| At five he rises shine or rain | E |
| And noisily plays 'fire' or 'train ' | - |
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| Likewise a girl aetatis eight | F |
| He hath Each morning as a rule | G |
| Proudly my neighbour will relate | F |
| How bright Mathilda is at school | G |
| My ardour less than half of mild | C |
| Bids me to comment 'Wondrous child ' | - |
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| All through the vernal afternoon | H |
| My other neighbour's children skate | F |
| A wild Bacchantic rigadoon | H |
| On rollers nor does it abate | F |
| Till dark and then his babies cry | I |
| What time I fain would versify | J |
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| Did I but set myself to sing | K |
| A children's song I'd stand revealed | L |
| A bard that did the infant thing | K |
| As well as Riley or 'Gene Field | L |
| I could write famous Children Stuff | J |
| If they'd keep quiet long enough | J |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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