Goody For Our Side And Your Side Too Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBDCBBC EFGGFHGIIG JKLLKGMNNM OPOPGQRRQ RSTTSCQCQ| Foreigners are people somewhere else | A |
| Natives are people at home | B |
| If the place you re at | C |
| Is your habitat | C |
| You re a foreigner say in Rome | B |
| But the scales of Justice balance true | D |
| And tit leads into tat | C |
| So the man who s at home | B |
| When he stays in Rome | B |
| Is abroad when he s where you re at | C |
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| When we leave the limits of the land in which | E |
| Our birth certificates sat us | F |
| It does not mean | G |
| Just a change of scene | G |
| But also a change of status | F |
| The Frenchman with his fetching beard | H |
| The Scot with his kilt and sporran | G |
| One moment he | I |
| May a native be | I |
| And the next may find him foreign | G |
| - | |
| There s many a difference quickly found | J |
| Between the different races | K |
| But the only essential | L |
| Differential | L |
| Is living different places | K |
| Yet such is the pride of prideful man | G |
| From Austrians to Australians | M |
| That wherever he is | N |
| He regards as his | N |
| And the natives there as aliens | M |
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| Oh I ll be friends if you ll be friends | O |
| The foreigner tells the native | P |
| And we ll work together for our common ends | O |
| Like a preposition and a dative | P |
| If our common ends seem mostly mine | G |
| Why not you ignorant foreigner | Q |
| And the native replies | R |
| Contrariwise | R |
| And hence my dears the coroner | Q |
| - | |
| So mind your manners when a native please | R |
| And doubly when you visit | S |
| And between us all | T |
| A rapport may fall | T |
| Ecstatically exquisite | S |
| One simple thought if you have it pat | C |
| Will eliminate the coroner | Q |
| You may be a native in your habitat | C |
| But to foreigners you re just a foreigner | Q |
Ogden Nash
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