Certain Truths About Certain Things Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEDE F GGAAHIII F IIJKLMLM N OOPPNONO O OOOOIIII N QQRSOOOO N TTUUOOO N VVOOOOOO I OOOOWOWO I VVSSXOTO O OOOOIOIO I DDOOTOTO I IIIIOTOT N OOOORRININ

And the boy that lives next doorA
Said to me one day There's moreA
In those rhymes of Mother GooseB
And those tales I don't care whoseC
Arabian Nights or Grimm's or wellD
Any one's than I've no doubtE
You or I can ever tellD
Or can ever know aboutE
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Why there is a land you knowG
Where the world is so and soG
Where old Hick a Hack a moreA
Kicks the king right out his doorA
And sits on his throne and killsH
Blackbirds as they fly from piesI
Pots them on the windowsillsI
I ain't telling you no liesI
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IIIF
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For I met an old man onceI
And he was n't any dunceI
Who just told me he had beenJ
To that land and he had seenK
All those people even metL
Handy Spandy in a shopM
And old Doctor Foster wetL
Mad enough to make you hopM
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And he said that Miller heO
Who once lived on River DeeO
Told him that he was a wreckP
Mind and body knee and neckP
Haunted by the memory ofN
That old flea whose bones he cracktO
On the millstones It was toughN
And it killed him it's a factO
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And he'd met that fellow tooO
Of St Ives and all his crewO
Wives and sacks and cats and heO
Said it was a sight to seeO
Wives a scolding and the catsI
Fighting in the sacks the kitsI
Scratching like so many ratsI
Yowling too to give you fitsI
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VIN
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And he said that Old King ColeQ
Was a fraud upon the wholeQ
Never had a fiddlerR
That could fiddle anywhereS
By the side of him and jokedO
While he drank the vilest brewO
From a cracked old bowl and smokedO
Worse tobacco smiling tooO
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And he said he knows of oneT
Oldtime town all over runT
With old beggars that at darkU
Loosen dogs that bark and barkU
Till the people gone to bedO
Throw out anything they've gotO
Just to keep the peace He saidO
'Ought n't they to all be shot '-
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And he said that that old manV
Clothed in leather was a banV
On the whole communityO
He was simply miserlyO
Filthy too economizedO
Clothes and washing that way andO
This man simply loathed despisedO
Him his grin and leather bandO
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Cinderella too why sheO
Was a slomp just naturallyO
Would n't work and had big feetO
Could have seen them 'cross the streetO
Did n't marry a Prince at allW
But the ashman Never at CourtO
Or a ball She had her gallW
To put that in her reportO
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Blue Beard was a much wronged manV
Think it was a well laid planV
For his wife her brothers thereS
Just to kill him and to shareS
All his gold and silver ThenX
Great Claus too was much abusedO
Think that old Hans AndersenT
Might have known it He was usedO
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XIO
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Little Two Eyes ate her goatO
Was a glutton If you'll noteO
All she did was eat and eatO
Thought of only bread and meatO
While her sisters I've heard sinceI
Scrubbed and labored day and nightO
But it's true she married a PrinceI
Fell in love with her appetiteO
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Jack the Giant Killer wellD
He's the worst the sorriest sellD
This man met him and he saidO
He was just a bully bledO
Folks by blackmail Every oneT
Was afraid of him But heO
This old man once saw him runT
From a boy not big as meO
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Rudest girls he ever sawI
Were Bo Peep and Marjory DawI
Always careless in their dressI
Given over to idlenessI
Bobby Shafto and Boy BlueO
Worst boys in the world the oneT
Fishing when he ought not toO
The other sleeping in the sunT
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Lots of other things he saidO
That somehow got out my headO
Something 'bout that girl contraryO
Never had a garden MaryO
And Miss Muffet that big spiderR
Never did sit down beside herR
And that Curly Locks the deuceI
Never had a curl A fewN
Things he told of Mother GooseI
And I know they all are trueN

Madison Julius Cawein



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