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 OOOORRININAnd the boy that lives next door | A |
Said to me one day There's more | A |
In those rhymes of Mother Goose | B |
And those tales I don't care whose | C |
Arabian Nights or Grimm's or well | D |
Any one's than I've no doubt | E |
You or I can ever tell | D |
Or can ever know about | E |
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II | F |
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Why there is a land you know | G |
Where the world is so and so | G |
Where old Hick a Hack a more | A |
Kicks the king right out his door | A |
And sits on his throne and kills | H |
Blackbirds as they fly from pies | I |
Pots them on the windowsills | I |
I ain't telling you no lies | I |
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III | F |
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For I met an old man once | I |
And he was n't any dunce | I |
Who just told me he had been | J |
To that land and he had seen | K |
All those people even met | L |
Handy Spandy in a shop | M |
And old Doctor Foster wet | L |
Mad enough to make you hop | M |
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IV | N |
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And he said that Miller he | O |
Who once lived on River Dee | O |
Told him that he was a wreck | P |
Mind and body knee and neck | P |
Haunted by the memory of | N |
That old flea whose bones he crackt | O |
On the millstones It was tough | N |
And it killed him it's a fact | O |
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V | O |
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And he'd met that fellow too | O |
Of St Ives and all his crew | O |
Wives and sacks and cats and he | O |
Said it was a sight to see | O |
Wives a scolding and the cats | I |
Fighting in the sacks the kits | I |
Scratching like so many rats | I |
Yowling too to give you fits | I |
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VI | N |
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And he said that Old King Cole | Q |
Was a fraud upon the whole | Q |
Never had a fiddler | R |
That could fiddle anywhere | S |
By the side of him and joked | O |
While he drank the vilest brew | O |
From a cracked old bowl and smoked | O |
Worse tobacco smiling too | O |
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VII | N |
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And he said he knows of one | T |
Oldtime town all over run | T |
With old beggars that at dark | U |
Loosen dogs that bark and bark | U |
Till the people gone to bed | O |
Throw out anything they've got | O |
Just to keep the peace He said | O |
'Ought n't they to all be shot ' | - |
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VIII | N |
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And he said that that old man | V |
Clothed in leather was a ban | V |
On the whole community | O |
He was simply miserly | O |
Filthy too economized | O |
Clothes and washing that way and | O |
This man simply loathed despised | O |
Him his grin and leather band | O |
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IX | I |
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Cinderella too why she | O |
Was a slomp just naturally | O |
Would n't work and had big feet | O |
Could have seen them 'cross the street | O |
Did n't marry a Prince at all | W |
But the ashman Never at Court | O |
Or a ball She had her gall | W |
To put that in her report | O |
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X | I |
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Blue Beard was a much wronged man | V |
Think it was a well laid plan | V |
For his wife her brothers there | S |
Just to kill him and to share | S |
All his gold and silver Then | X |
Great Claus too was much abused | O |
Think that old Hans Andersen | T |
Might have known it He was used | O |
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XI | O |
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Little Two Eyes ate her goat | O |
Was a glutton If you'll note | O |
All she did was eat and eat | O |
Thought of only bread and meat | O |
While her sisters I've heard since | I |
Scrubbed and labored day and night | O |
But it's true she married a Prince | I |
Fell in love with her appetite | O |
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XII | I |
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Jack the Giant Killer well | D |
He's the worst the sorriest sell | D |
This man met him and he said | O |
He was just a bully bled | O |
Folks by blackmail Every one | T |
Was afraid of him But he | O |
This old man once saw him run | T |
From a boy not big as me | O |
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XIII | I |
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Rudest girls he ever saw | I |
Were Bo Peep and Marjory Daw | I |
Always careless in their dress | I |
Given over to idleness | I |
Bobby Shafto and Boy Blue | O |
Worst boys in the world the one | T |
Fishing when he ought not to | O |
The other sleeping in the sun | T |
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XIV | N |
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Lots of other things he said | O |
That somehow got out my head | O |
Something 'bout that girl contrary | O |
Never had a garden Mary | O |
And Miss Muffet that big spider | R |
Never did sit down beside her | R |
And that Curly Locks the deuce | I |
Never had a curl A few | N |
Things he told of Mother Goose | I |
And I know they all are true | N |
Madison Julius Cawein
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