How A Girl Was Too Reckless Of Grammar By Far Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBCDDC DEFGFGHHG IIDJDJKKJ LLMNMNOOP QQHRHRSSR TTUBUBHU B VVDWDWMMW HH| Matilda Maud Mackenzie frankly hadn't any chin | A |
| Her hands were rough her feet she turned invariably in | A |
| Her general form was German | B |
| By which I mean that you | C |
| Her waist could not determine | B |
| To within a foot or two | C |
| And not only did she stammer | D |
| But she used the kind of grammar | D |
| That is called for sake of euphony askew | C |
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| From what I say about her don't imagine I desire | D |
| A prejudice against this worthy creature to inspire | E |
| She was willing she was active | F |
| She was sober she was kind | G |
| But she never looked attractive | F |
| And she hadn't any mind | G |
| I knew her more than slightly | H |
| And I treated her politely | H |
| When I met her but of course I wasn't blind | G |
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| Matilda Maud Mackenzie had a habit that was droll | I |
| She spent her morning seated on a rock or on a knoll | I |
| And threw with much composure | D |
| A smallish rubber ball | J |
| At an inoffensive osier | D |
| By a little waterfall | J |
| But Matilda's way of throwing | K |
| Was like other people's mowing | K |
| And she never hit the willow tree at all | J |
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| One day as Miss Mackenzie with uncommon ardor tried | L |
| To hit the mark the missile flew exceptionally wide | L |
| And before her eyes astounded | M |
| On a fallen maple's trunk | N |
| Ricochetted and rebounded | M |
| In the rivulet and sunk | N |
| Matilda greatly frightened | O |
| In her grammar unenlightened | O |
| Remarked Well now I ast yer Who'd 'er thunk | P |
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| But what a marvel followed From the pool at once there rose | Q |
| A frog the sphere of rubber balanced deftly on his nose | Q |
| He beheld her fright and frenzy | H |
| And her panic to dispel | R |
| On his knee by Miss Mackenzie | H |
| He obsequiously fell | R |
| With quite as much decorum | S |
| As a speaker in a forum | S |
| He started in his history to tell | R |
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| Fair maid he said I beg you do not hesitate or wince | T |
| If you'll promise that you'll wed me I'll at once become a prince | T |
| For a fairy old and vicious | U |
| An enchantment round me spun | B |
| Then he looked up unsuspicious | U |
| And he saw what he had won | B |
| And in terms of sad reproach he | H |
| Made some comments sotto voce | U |
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| Which the publishers have bidden me to shun | B |
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| Matilda Maud Mackenzie said as if she meant to scold | V |
| I never Why you forward thing Now ain't you awful bold | V |
| Just a glance he paused to give her | D |
| And his head was seen to clutch | W |
| Then he darted to the river | D |
| And he dived to beat the Dutch | W |
| While the wrathful maiden panted | M |
| I don't think he was enchanted | M |
| And he really didn't look it overmuch | W |
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| The Moral In one's language one conservative should be | H |
| Speech is silver and it never should be free | H |
Guy Wetmore Carryl
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