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 WTWTKind 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When food with me is obsolete | I |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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