Four Acre Farm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB AACC DDEE FFGG HHII JJKL MMBB NNOO| This is a tale but it is truth | A |
| Of maiden lady named Ruth | A |
| She owned a small four acre farm | B |
| Which possessed some rural charm | B |
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| This maiden she was past her youth | A |
| But none e're fell in love with Ruth | A |
| Though you must not infer from thence | C |
| That she possessed not grace nor sense | C |
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| She was handsome in her day | D |
| But beauty quickly fades away | D |
| Good vegetables and fine roots | E |
| She growed and choicest kind of fruits | E |
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| And a first class good milch cow | F |
| She kept and a fine breeding sow | F |
| Her butter high price did command | G |
| Cow fed on best of pasture land | G |
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| On it was pond where swam her geese | H |
| From small flock of sheep she sheared fleece | H |
| And thus she passed year after year | I |
| Her cares they kept her in good cheer | I |
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| Each year she raised large chicken brood | J |
| And for them she grew lots of food | J |
| In winter time it was her rule | K |
| To knit and spin up her own wool | L |
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| And thus her uneventful life | M |
| Doth pass without jar or strife | M |
| 'Tis seldom she e're feels alarm | B |
| But quietly tills her little farm | B |
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| To plow her little fields of course | N |
| She does require to drive her horse | N |
| This little pony looks quite smart | O |
| Drawing old maid in little cart | O |
James Mcintyre
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