People Will Talk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GGHHI JJBBI KKLMI NNOOI PPQQI RRSII| The following lines were written at the request of a little girl | A |
| who said she would recite them at a Sunday School | B |
| entertainment She wished it written to the refrain people | C |
| will talk I presume the ideas in the following are nearly | D |
| altogether original or they are very differently worded | E |
| from the old pieces under the title of 'People will Talk ' | F |
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| Dressing in fashion will be called vain | G |
| And they'll call you a dowdey sic if you are plain | G |
| But do what is right lot that be the test | H |
| Then proudly hold up your head with the best | H |
| For people will talk | I |
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| You will never be wrong if you do what is right | J |
| And this course pursue with all of your might | J |
| And if you're a child going to school | B |
| Or full grown up take this for your rule | B |
| For people will talk | I |
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| The best way to do is to let them rave | K |
| And they'll think more of you if you are brave | K |
| For no one will ever think you are rude | L |
| If you are determined for to be good | M |
| For people will talk | I |
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| Little girl on her way to Sunday school class | N |
| Rude boys sometimes will not let her pass | N |
| But if they do see that she is not afraid | O |
| They soon will respect the brave little maid | O |
| For people will talk | I |
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| Little girls should learn to knit and to sew | P |
| Then if to womanhood they ever grow | P |
| Their hose they can knit and make their own dress | Q |
| Then to their homes they will bring bless | Q |
| For people will talk | I |
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| And their homes they should make tidy and neat | R |
| Everything should be so clean and so sweet | R |
| This line for ourselves out we will chalk | S |
| And we are determined in it to walk | I |
| For people will talk | I |
James Mcintyre
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