How The Fatuous Wish Of A Peasant Came True Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDDEEFD EEGHHGIIJJJI KKLMMLNNOOPN MMMMMMBBQQQB RRNQQNMMMMMM JJSJJSTTUUUT MMVQQVQQMMMQ MMMMAn excellent peasant | A |
Of character pleasant | A |
Once lived in a hut with his wife | B |
He was cheerful and docile | C |
But such an old fossil | C |
You wouldn't meet twice in your life | B |
His notions were all without reason or rhyme | D |
Such dullness in any one else were a crime | D |
But the folly pig headed | E |
To which he was wedded | E |
Was so deep imbedded | F |
it touched the sublime | D |
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He frequently stated | E |
Such quite antiquated | E |
And singular doctrines as these | G |
Do good unto others | H |
All men are your brothers | H |
Of course he forgot the Chinese | G |
He said that all men were made equal and free | I |
That's true if they're born on our side of the sea | I |
That truth should be spoken | J |
And pledges unbroken | J |
Now where by that token | J |
would most of us be | I |
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One day as his pottage | K |
He ate in his cottage | K |
A fairy stepped up to the door | L |
Upon it she hammered | M |
And meekly she stammered | M |
A morsel of food I implore | L |
He gave her sardines and a biscuit or two | N |
And she said in reply when her luncheon was through | N |
In return for these dishes | O |
Of bread and of fishes | O |
The first of your wishes | P |
I'll make to come true | N |
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That nincompoop peasant | M |
Accepted the present | M |
As most of us probably would | M |
And thinking her bounty | M |
To turn to account he | M |
Said Now I'll do somebody good | M |
I won't ask a thing for myself or my wife | B |
But I'll make all my neighbors with happiness rife | B |
Whate'er their conditions | Q |
Henceforward physicians | Q |
And indispositions | Q |
they're rid of for life | B |
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These words energetic | R |
The fairy's prophetic | R |
Announcement brought instantly true | N |
With singular quickness | Q |
Each victim of sickness | Q |
Was made over better than new | N |
And people who formerly thought they were doomed | M |
With almost obstreperous healthiness bloomed | M |
And each had some platitude | M |
Teeming with gratitude | M |
For the new attitude | M |
life had assumed | M |
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Our friend's satisfaction | J |
Concerning his action | J |
Was keen but exceedingly brief | S |
The wrathful condition | J |
Of every physician | J |
In town was surpassing belief | S |
Professional nurses were plunged in despair | T |
And chemists shook passionate fists in the air | T |
They called at his dwelling | U |
With violence swelling | U |
His greeting repelling | U |
with arrogant stare | T |
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They beat and they battered | M |
They slammed and they shattered | M |
And did him such serious harm | V |
That after their labors | Q |
His wife told the neighbors | Q |
They'd caused her excessive alarm | V |
They then set to work on his various ills | Q |
And plied him with liniments powders and pills | Q |
And charged him so dearly | M |
That all of them nearly | M |
Made double the yearly | M |
amount of their bills | Q |
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This Moral by the tale is taught | M |
The wish is father to the thought | M |
We'd oftentimes escape the worst | M |
If but the thinking part came first | M |
Guy Wetmore Carryl
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