The Boy Next Door Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEED F GHGHDIIJ F KEKELMMI N OPOPQRRQ N STSTUNN N OVOVWNN N XYX ZA2A2 N BB2BB2NC2C2N N D2BD2BE2F2F2E2| There's a boy who lives next door | A |
| And this boy is just as bad | B |
| As a boy can be and poor | C |
| He's so poor it makes me sad | B |
| When I see him Out at knee | D |
| And no shoes and more than that | E |
| Hardly any shirt or hat | E |
| He's as poor as Poverty | D |
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| II | F |
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| But I like him yes I do | G |
| He can play 'most any game | H |
| And tell fairy stories too | G |
| Funny stories just the same | H |
| As my father does And he | D |
| Told me one about a frog | I |
| Living near a lake or bog | I |
| Frog that married a bumblebee | J |
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| III | F |
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| And another of Jumping Joan | K |
| And Hink Minx the old witch that | E |
| Sits before the fire alone | K |
| Frying fat for her black cat | E |
| And of Craney Crow her dog | L |
| And her chicken But the best | M |
| One I like more than the rest | M |
| 'S that one of the bee and frog | I |
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| IV | N |
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| Well the bumblebee would sing | O |
| All day long and all the night | P |
| Sang the old frog till the thing | O |
| So folks said was done in spite | P |
| Just to keep the flowers awake | Q |
| One a rose a brier rose | R |
| And the other one of those | R |
| Lilies that grow in a lake | Q |
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| V | N |
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| All day long the bee would prod | S |
| At the rose and buzz and keep | T |
| Shaking it it couldn't nod | S |
| Much less ever go to sleep | T |
| Humming to it 'Don't you hear | U |
| I'm so happy Can't you be | N |
| Just a little neighborly | N |
| Ain't my froggie just a dear ' | - |
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| VI | N |
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| And the frog all night would sing | O |
| To the water lily while | V |
| On the pad he'd sit or cling | O |
| On his face an ear wide smile | V |
| Croaking 'Listen have you heard | W |
| All about my bouncing bee | N |
| Don't you wish that you were she | N |
| I'm as happy as a bird ' | - |
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| VII | N |
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| Then the water lily'd yawn | X |
| And the rose would bat its eyes | Y |
| One would say 'It's nearly dawn | X |
| Better sleep So I advise ' | - |
| And the other 'Jumping Jim | Z |
| That old frog's a wonder made | A2 |
| Just for you Can't I persuade | A2 |
| You to sing your songs to him ' | - |
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| VIII | N |
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| Finally it got so bad | B |
| That the rose and lily agreed | B2 |
| They would fix them Both were mad | B |
| And just dying to be freed | B2 |
| From this tuneful tyranny | N |
| So the rose just took a thorn | C2 |
| When the bee dropped in one morn | C2 |
| Stabbed her killed her dead you see | N |
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| IX | N |
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| That night by the yellow moon | D2 |
| Sitting on the lily pad | B |
| Tuning up his old bassoon | D2 |
| Did n't that old frog feel sad | B |
| When the lily told him Cried | E2 |
| Fit to break one's heart and plunk | F2 |
| In he plunged right there and sunk | F2 |
| Drowned committed suicide | E2 |
Madison Julius Cawein
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