Fifty-fifty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GAGA HIHI| For something like eleven summers | A |
| I've written things that aimed to teach | B |
| Our careless mealy mouth d mummers | A |
| To be more sedulous of speech | B |
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| So sloppy of articulation | C |
| So limping and so careless they | D |
| About distinct enunciation | C |
| Often I don't know what they say | D |
| - | |
| The other night an able actor | E |
| Declaiming of some lines I heard | F |
| I hailed a public benefactor | E |
| As I distinguished every word | F |
| - | |
| But oh the subtle disappointment | G |
| Thorn on the celebrated rose | A |
| And fly within the well known ointment | G |
| Allusions everybody knows | A |
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| Came forth the words exact and snappy | H |
| And as I sat there that P M | I |
| I mused Was I not just as happy | H |
| When I could not distinguish them | I |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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