Natural Perversities Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EDEDFDFD CGHGIDID JKJKDLDL MNMNOCPC QRQRSCSC KDKDTETE| I am not prone to moralize | A |
| In scientific doubt | B |
| On certain facts that Nature tries | A |
| To puzzle us about | B |
| For I am no philosopher | C |
| Of wise elucidation | D |
| But speak of things as they occur | C |
| From simple observation | D |
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| I notice LITTLE things to wit | E |
| I never missed a train | D |
| Because I didn't RUN for it | E |
| I never knew it rain | D |
| That my umbrella wasn't lent | F |
| Or when in my possession | D |
| The sun but wore to all intent | F |
| A jocular expression | D |
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| I never knew a creditor | C |
| To dun me for a debt | G |
| But I was 'cramped' or 'bu'sted' or | H |
| I never knew one yet | G |
| When I had plenty in my purse | I |
| To make the least invasion | D |
| As I accordingly perverse | I |
| Have courted no occasion | D |
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| Nor do I claim to comprehend | J |
| What Nature has in view | K |
| In giving us the very friend | J |
| To trust we oughtn't to | K |
| But so it is The trusty gun | D |
| Disastrously exploded | L |
| Is always sure to be the one | D |
| We didn't think was loaded | L |
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| Our moaning is another's mirth | M |
| And what is worse by half | N |
| We say the funniest thing on earth | M |
| And never raise a laugh | N |
| 'Mid friends that love us over well | O |
| And sparkling jests and liquor | C |
| Our hearts somehow are liable | P |
| To melt in tears the quicker | C |
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| We reach the wrong when most we seek | Q |
| The right in like effect | R |
| We stay the strong and not the weak | Q |
| Do most when we neglect | R |
| Neglected genius truth be said | S |
| As wild and quick as tinder | C |
| The more you seek to help ahead | S |
| The more you seem to hinder | C |
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| I've known the least the greatest too | K |
| And on the selfsame plan | D |
| The biggest fool I ever knew | K |
| Was quite a little man | D |
| We find we ought and then we won't | T |
| We prove a thing then doubt it | E |
| Know EVERYTHING but when we don't | T |
| Know ANYTHING about it | E |
James Whitcomb Riley
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