A Song In The Front Yard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DEFF GHIIFHJJ KKLL| I ve stayed in the front yard all my life | A |
| I want a peek at the back | B |
| Where it s rough and untended and hungry weed grows | C |
| A girl gets sick of a rose | C |
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| I want to go in the back yard now | D |
| And maybe down the alley | E |
| To where the charity children play | F |
| I want a good time today | F |
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| They do some wonderful things | G |
| They have some wonderful fun | H |
| My mother sneers but I say it s fine | I |
| How they don t have to go in at quarter to nine | I |
| My mother she tells me that Johnnie Mae | F |
| Will grow up to be a bad woman | H |
| That George ll be taken to Jail soon or late | J |
| On account of last winter he sold our back gate | J |
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| But I say it s fine Honest I do | K |
| And I d like to be a bad woman too | K |
| And wear the brave stockings of night black lace | L |
| And strut down the streets with paint on my face | L |
Gwendolyn Brooks
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