Happy-go-lucky Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHGH IJKL IMNM IGEG| I can't get up with the chickens | A |
| I can't get up at dark | B |
| And what do I care for the early worm | C |
| And what do I care for the lark | B |
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| I can't do this or that thing | D |
| I can't do things like you | E |
| And the thing that I do most frequent | F |
| Is the thing I never do | E |
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| I can't go where I would go | G |
| Though I go from morn till eve | H |
| But some place I go wherever I go | G |
| Whenever a place I leave | H |
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| For the law of the road is this law | I |
| And the law is right and good | J |
| Just go your ways and take no heed | K |
| Of how you get your food | L |
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| And the law of the road is this law | I |
| And the law is one to keep | M |
| It never matters wherever you are | N |
| So you have a place to sleep | M |
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| And the law of the road is this law | I |
| And the law may it grow and grow | G |
| Wherever you go and whatever you do | E |
| Let no one ever know | G |
Madison Julius Cawein
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