A Parody Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEABAB FBFBGHGHEABAB IBIBBEBEEABAB| On old Long Island's sea girt shore | A |
| We caught a cod the other day | B |
| He never had been there before | A |
| And wished that he had stayed away | B |
| We laid him on the beach to dry | C |
| Then served him frizzled on a dish | D |
| A warning to the smaller fry | C |
| As well as all the larger fish | D |
| O o o o o | E |
| On old Long Island's sea girt shore | A |
| We caught a cod the other day | B |
| He never had been there before | A |
| And wished that he had stayed away | B |
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| Oh 'twas a scaly thing to haul | F |
| This tom cod from his native spray | B |
| And thus to frighten one and all | F |
| The finny tribe from Rockaway | B |
| They shun the fisher's hook and line | G |
| And never venture near his net | H |
| So when at Rockaway you dine | G |
| Now not a thing but clams you get | H |
| O o o o o | E |
| On old Long Island's sea girt shore | A |
| We caught a cod the other day | B |
| He never had been there before | A |
| And wished that he had stayed away | B |
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| Should critics at my ballad carp | I |
| To them this simple truth I'll say | B |
| The grammar's quite as good as Sharp | I |
| Wrote on the beach of Rockaway | B |
| The tune's the same that Russell cribbed | B |
| With the addition of his O | E |
| Which makes it or the singer fibbed | B |
| Original and all the go | E |
| O o o o o | E |
| On old Long Island's sea girt shore | A |
| We caught a cod the other day | B |
| He never had been there before | A |
| And wished that he had stayed away | B |
George Pope Morris
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