Sly Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE EGCG HIJI KGLG MCNC OPEP QRSR EFTE JUEV MCNC WXHX| I was the slyest boy at home | A |
| The slyest boy at school | B |
| I wanted all the world to know | C |
| That I was no one's fool | B |
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| I kept my childish hopes and schemes | D |
| Locked closely in my breast | E |
| No single secret shared with Bob | F |
| The chum I liked the best | E |
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| I never showed my squirrel's nest | E |
| Nor beaver dam nor cave | G |
| Nor fortress where I used to go | C |
| To be a soldier brave | G |
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| Oh I was sly just awful sly | H |
| In winter summer spring | I |
| While Bob would tell me all he knew | J |
| I never told a thing | I |
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| And yet Bob always got ahead | K |
| I'd find the careless knave | G |
| Asleep within my fortress walls | L |
| And fishing in my cave | G |
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| What yours he said in great surprise | M |
| You should have told me so | C |
| You never said a word old chum | N |
| And how was I to know | C |
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| My slyness hurt more than it helped | O |
| If Bob had known you see | P |
| He was too kind to do his best | E |
| To get ahead of me | P |
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| I still was sly when I grew up | Q |
| I fell in love with Nan | R |
| But scorned to own it to myself | S |
| Or any other man | R |
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| So sly was I Nan never guessed | E |
| No more did handsome Bob | F |
| That every time she looked my way | T |
| My heart it stirred and throbbed | E |
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| The same old story Ere I knew | J |
| My chum had loved and won | U |
| When I explained I'd picked her out | E |
| To be my very own | V |
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| What yours he said in great surprise | M |
| You should have told me so | C |
| You never said a word old chum | N |
| And how was I to know | C |
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| I've learned my lesson lost my girl | W |
| You'll own 'tis rather rough | X |
| Henceforward I'll not be too sly | H |
| I'll be just sly enough | X |
Jean Blewett
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