The Little Clock Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBDB EBFB GHGH IJIJ KJKL MJMJ NJOJ PQPR KHSH JJJJ JRJR TUTU TQTQ DLDL LVLV WTWT| Kind friend you do not know how much | A |
| I prize this time ly treasure | B |
| So dainty diligent and such | A |
| A constant source of pleasure | B |
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| The man of brains who could invent | C |
| So true a chrono meter | B |
| Has set a charming precedent | D |
| And made a good repeater | B |
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| It speaks with clear commanding clicks | E |
| Suggestive of the donor | B |
| And 'tends to business never sick | F |
| A bit more than the owner | B |
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| It goes when I do when I stop | G |
| As by the dial showing | H |
| It never lets a second drop | G |
| But simply keeps on going | H |
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| It tells me when I am to eat | I |
| Which isn't necessary | J |
| When food with me is obsolete | I |
| I'll be a reliquary | J |
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| It tells me early when to rise | K |
| And bother with dejeuner | J |
| To sally forth and exercise | K |
| And fill up my porte monnaie | L |
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| I hear it talking in the night | M |
| As if it were in clover | J |
| You've never lost your appetite | M |
| You've never been run over | J |
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| It makes me wish that I might live | N |
| More faithful unto duty | J |
| And unto others something give | O |
| Like this bijou of beauty | J |
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| It holds its hands before its face | P |
| So very modest is it | Q |
| So like the people in the place | P |
| Where I delight to visit | R |
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| Sometimes I wonder if it cries | K |
| The course I am pursuing | H |
| Because it has so many I s | S |
| And must know what I'm doing | H |
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| Sometimes I fear it makes me cry | J |
| No matter and no pity | J |
| Afraid at last I'll have to die | J |
| In some far foreign city | J |
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| It travels with me everywhere | J |
| And chirrups like a cricket | R |
| As if it said with anxious air | J |
| Don't lose your tick tick ticket | R |
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| Companion of my loneliness | T |
| Along my journey westward | U |
| It never leaves me comfortless | T |
| But has the last and best word | U |
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| I would not spoil its lovely face | T |
| And so I go behind it | Q |
| And hold it like a china vase | T |
| So careful when I wind it | Q |
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| A clock is always excellent | D |
| That has its label on | L |
| And proves a fine advertisement | D |
| For Waterbury Conn | L |
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| Those Yankees ah they never shun | L |
| A chance to make a dime | V |
| And counterfeit the very sun | L |
| In keeping Standard Time | V |
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| Ah well the little clock has proved | W |
| The best of all bonanzas | T |
| And thus my happy heart is moved | W |
| To these effusive stanzas | T |
Hattie Howard
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