Topsy Turvy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB C B DEDE FF B GHGH II B BABA JJ B KLKL MMLB| Topsy Turvy is her name | A |
| She's a curiosity | B |
| Never sees the world the same | A |
| As it seems to you and me | B |
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| 'All the world is upside down ' | - |
| So she says then with a frown | C |
| 'If it's not it ought to be ' | - |
| Topsy Turvy Topsy Turvy | B |
| - | |
| Takes you to some old wood pool | D |
| Or some well to prove she's right | E |
| 'There's the real world you fool | D |
| Something's wrong with people's sight | E |
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| There's the sky the clouds the wood | F |
| There you see them as you should | F |
| If you don't it's out of spite ' | - |
| Topsy Turvy Topsy Turvy | B |
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| 'You are walking on your heads | G |
| And don't know it but it's true | H |
| You don't lie down in your beds | G |
| But your beds lie down on you | H |
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| You are under them The sun | I |
| Moon and stars are every one | I |
| Shining underneath you too ' | - |
| Topsy Turvy Topsy Turvy | B |
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| 'Seems that no one else can see | B |
| As I see it It's a shame | A |
| Or your own perversity | B |
| But good Lord I'm not to blame | A |
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| Don't know what you miss you don't | J |
| By not seeing things you won't | J |
| My how fine they look to me ' | - |
| Topsy Turvy Topsy Turvy | B |
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| Then she runs away and hides | K |
| By a creek and looks for hours | L |
| In the water where it slides | K |
| At herself the trees and flowers | L |
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| Sun and skies and clouds and if | M |
| You just laugh she gives a sniff | M |
| Shakes her head and glares and glowers | L |
| Topsy Turvy Topsy Turvy | B |
Madison Julius Cawein
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