The Box Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEBCBFBCBGHBIIBJ BKBELLBHBMMBNOCBPQBC CD| Once upon a time in the land of Hush A Bye | A |
| Around about the wondrous days of yore | B |
| They came across a kind of box | C |
| Bound up with chains and locked with locks | C |
| And labeled 'Kindly do not touch it's war ' | D |
| A decree was issued round about and all with a flourish and a shout | E |
| And a gaily colored mascot tripping lightly on before | B |
| Don't fiddle with this deadly box Or break the chains or pick the locks | C |
| And please don't ever play about with war | B |
| The children understood Children happen to be good | F |
| And they were just as good around the time of yore | B |
| They didn't try to pick the locksOr break into that deadly box | C |
| They never tried to play about with war | B |
| Mommies didn't either sisters aunts grannies neither | G |
| 'Cause they were quiet and sweet and pretty | H |
| In those wondrous days of yore | B |
| Well very much the same as now | I |
| And not the ones to blame somehow | I |
| For opening up that deadly box of war | B |
| But someone did Someone battered in the lid | J |
| And spilled the insides out across the floor | B |
| A kind of bouncy bumpy ball made up of guns and flags | K |
| And all the tears and horror and death that comes with war | B |
| It bounced right out and went bashing all about | E |
| Bumping into everything in store And what was sad and most unfair | L |
| Was that it didn't really seem to care | L |
| Much who it bumped or why or what or for | B |
| It bumped the children mainly And I'll tell you this quite plainly | H |
| It bumps them every day and more and more | B |
| And leaves them dead and burned and dying | M |
| Thousands of them sick and crying | M |
| 'Cause when it bumps it's really very sore | B |
| Now there's a way to stop the ball It isn't difficult at all | N |
| All it takes is wisdom and I'm absolutely sure | O |
| That we can get it back into the box And bind the chains and lock the locks | C |
| But no one seems to want to save the children anymore | B |
| Well that's the way it all appears 'cause it's been bouncing round | P |
| for years and years | Q |
| In spite of all the wisdom wizzed since those wondrous days of yore | B |
| And the time they came across the box | C |
| Bound up with chains and locked with locks | C |
| And labeled 'Kindly do not touch it's war ' | D |
Lascelles Abercrombie
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