The Impecunious Cricket And The Frugal Ant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFGHBHB IJKJLMLN OPOPBQBQ RRAA| There was an ant a spinster ant | A |
| Whose virtues were so many | B |
| That she became intolerant | C |
| Of those who hadn't any | B |
| She had a small and frugal mind | D |
| And lived a life ascetic | E |
| Nor was her temperament the kind | D |
| That's known as sympathetic | E |
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| I skip details Suffice to say | F |
| That knocking at her wicket | G |
| There chanced to come one autumn day | F |
| A common garden cricket | G |
| So ragged poor and needy that | H |
| Without elucidation | B |
| One saw the symptoms of a bat | H |
| Of several months' duration | B |
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| He paused beside her door step and | I |
| With one pathetic gesture | J |
| He called attention with his hand | K |
| To both his shoes and vesture | J |
| I joined said he an opera troupe | L |
| They suddenly disbanded | M |
| And left me on the hostel stoop | L |
| Lugubriously stranded | N |
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| I therefore lay aside my pride | O |
| And frankly ask for clothing | P |
| Begone the frugal ant replied | O |
| I look on you with loathing | P |
| Your muddy shoes have spoiled the lawn | B |
| Your hands have soiled the fence too | Q |
| If you need money go and pawn | B |
| Your watch if you have sense to | Q |
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| THE MORAL is Albeit lots | R |
| Of people follow Dr Watts | R |
| The sluggard when his means are scant | A |
| Should seek an uncle not an ant | A |
Guy Wetmore Carryl
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