Bad Luck Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EFFFG FHFHII JKJKFF GLGLFF FMFMFF NOHPHH| Once a rabbit crossed my road | A |
| When I went to see my aunt | B |
| And another time a toad | A |
| Hopped right in my way You can't | B |
| Kill toads for that makes it rain | C |
| And would spoil your day again | D |
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| But the rabbit if I could | E |
| I'd have killed him For one day | F |
| Once a boy he told me 'Should | F |
| A wild rabbit cross your way | F |
| Look out for bad luck that is | G |
| If your fingers ain't cross criss ' | - |
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| But if I had shot him dead | F |
| I'd not been unlucky no | H |
| And not fallen out of bed | F |
| That same night or stumped my toe | H |
| Playing'I Spy' nor the string | I |
| Broken when I went to swing | I |
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| Talk about bad luck I guess | J |
| That old rabbit brought it Well | K |
| Maudie had on her new dress | J |
| And I pushed her and she fell | K |
| In a creek hole where you're bound | F |
| To get wet so Maudie found | F |
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| I I pulled her out that is | G |
| Buddie helped me Bud's a boy | L |
| Who was fishing there And Liz | G |
| Maud's old nurse she took my toy | L |
| My toy whip and she was mad | F |
| Whipped my legs and called me bad | F |
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| Then she said Maud might have drowned | F |
| And the creek was full of'dumb | M |
| Pollywogs and snakes ' a sound | F |
| Whipping just might help me some | M |
| Maybe Maud would catch a cold | F |
| And my mother should be told | F |
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| No sir I don't want to see | N |
| Any rabbits anyways | O |
| Cross my road Why gemenie | H |
| That's a swear word Maudie says | P |
| If I saw one only one | H |
| I would turn and run and run | H |
Madison Julius Cawein
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