Guy Wetmore Carryl

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The Iconoclastic Rustic And The Apropos Acorn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD EFEFGGHH IDIDJJKK LMNMOPQQ JRJRSTUU VVWW

Reposing 'neath some spreading treesA
A populistic bumpkinB
Amused himself by offering theseA
Reflections on a pumpkinB
I would not if the choice were mineC
Grow things like that upon a vineC
For how imposing it would beD
If pumpkins grew upon a treeD
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Like other populists you'll noteE
Of views enthusiasticF
He'd learned by heart and said by roteE
A creed iconoclasticF
And in his dim uncertain sightG
Whatever wasn't must be rightG
From which it follows he had strongH
Convictions that what was was wrongH
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As thus he sat beneath an oakI
An acorn fell abruptlyD
And smote his nose whereat he spokeI
Of acorns most corruptlyD
Great Scott he cried The Dickens tooJ
And other authors whom he knewJ
And having duly mentioned thoseK
He expeditiously aroseK
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Then though with pain he nearly swoonedL
He bathed his organ nasalM
With arnica and soothed the woundN
With extract of witch hazelM
And surely we may well excuseO
The victim if he changed his viewsP
If pumpkins fell from trees like thatQ
He murmured Where would I be atQ
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Of course it's wholly clear to youJ
That when these words he utteredR
He proved conclusively he knewJ
Which side his bread was butteredR
And if this point you have not missedS
You'll learn to love this populistT
The only one of all his kindU
With sense enough to change his mindU
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THE MORAL In the early springV
A pumpkin tree would be a thingV
Most gratifying to us allW
But how about the early fallW

Guy Wetmore Carryl



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