Tomboy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABABCAD EEFEFAE AACGHIGI JJHJHKJK LLMLMNLN OOPO AOA QQRQRAQA IININBIB EESESAE| There's a little girl I know | A |
| And we call her So and So | A |
| She is neither good nor bad | B |
| Good enough for me although | A |
| Never saw a girl that had | B |
| More real life in her or more | C |
| Of what people christen go | A |
| Pretty too as she is poor | D |
| - | |
| So and So is not her name | E |
| But her nickname She's to blame | E |
| For it being named that way | F |
| For she often starts some game | E |
| And when asked what 't is we play | F |
| She just answers 'I don't know | A |
| It's a good game just the same | E |
| And I call it So and So ' | - |
| - | |
| Other girls don't like her no | A |
| Just because she's So and So | A |
| Call her names like Tomboy or | C |
| Wildcat just as girls will do | G |
| When a girl is popular | H |
| With the boys and does n't care | I |
| Much for girls and 's pretty too | G |
| With blue eyes and golden hair | I |
| - | |
| I would give most anything | J |
| Just to hear her laugh and sing | J |
| Dance too She is funnier | H |
| Than a circus and its ring | J |
| And no boy can out run her | H |
| Or out dare her And oh my | K |
| You should see her in a swing | J |
| Streaking it into the sky | K |
| - | |
| She's the girl that suits me yes | L |
| And suits all the boys I guess | L |
| Never backward always in | M |
| For some picnic more or less | L |
| Take your top and wind and spin | M |
| Or play marbles fly a kite | N |
| Or if needs be in a mess | L |
| She can just pitch in and fight | N |
| - | |
| Let some big boy dare to touch | O |
| Bully some small boy or such | O |
| She's right at him saying 'You | P |
| Great big coward need a crutch | O |
| By the time that I get through ' | - |
| And she's bright at school although | A |
| She don't have to study much | O |
| As some other girls I know | A |
| - | |
| Once two weeks went by and she | Q |
| Had just disappeared you see | Q |
| Had n't come to play or call | R |
| She was sick apparently | Q |
| And we made it up that all | R |
| All the boys or some should go | A |
| And find out what it could be | Q |
| And report on So and So | A |
| - | |
| Well what do you think Declare | I |
| When we rang the door bell there | I |
| At the door she stood as bright | N |
| Brighter ev'n with nice combed hair | I |
| In an apron spotless white | N |
| And she smiled and seemed so glad | B |
| But about her was an air | I |
| Of importance she'd not had | B |
| - | |
| Was the same yet not the same | E |
| And when I began to blame | E |
| She just stopped me with a bow | S |
| Saying 'Boys I've changed my name | E |
| I've a little brother now | S |
| Baby brother Don't you know | A |
| Takes the place of every game | E |
| And I call him So and So ' | - |
Madison Julius Cawein
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