Look What You Did, Christopher! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFEGG HHIIJKKLKAKKKMKKKNKK OPQ HHIIRAAPPKSKKTKTKQKO QQIIKKUUKKKKVWVWXSXY SZZKKWWA2B2B2C2AC2II C2C2 AOWO HHC2KKPP| In fourteen hundred and ninety two | A |
| Someone sailed the ocean blue | A |
| Somebody borrowed the fare in Spain | B |
| For a business trip on the bounding main | B |
| And to prove to the people by actual test | C |
| You could get to the East by sailing West | C |
| Somebody said Sail on Sail on | D |
| And studied China and China's lingo | E |
| And cried from the bow There's China now | F |
| And promptly bumped into San Domingo | E |
| Somebody murmured Oh dear oh dear | G |
| I've discovered the Western Hemisphere | G |
| - | |
| And that you may think my friends was that | H |
| But it wasn't Not by a fireman's hat | H |
| Well enough wasn't left alone | I |
| And Columbus was only a cornerstone | I |
| There came the Spaniards | J |
| There came the Greeks | K |
| There came the Pilgrims in leather breeks | K |
| There came the Dutch | L |
| And the Poles and Swedes | K |
| The Persians too | A |
| And perhaps the Medes | K |
| The Letts the Lapps and the Lithuanians | K |
| Regal Russians and ripe Roumanians | K |
| There came the French | M |
| And there came the Finns | K |
| And the Japanese | K |
| With their formal grins | K |
| The Tartars came | N |
| And the Terrible Turks | K |
| In a word humanity shot the works | K |
| And the country that should have been Cathay | O |
| Decided to be | P |
| The U S A | Q |
| - | |
| And that you may think my friends was that | H |
| But it wasn't Not by a fireman's hat | H |
| Christopher C was the cornerstone | I |
| And well enough wasn't left alone | I |
| For those who followed | R |
| When he was through | A |
| They burned to discover something too | A |
| Somebody bored with rural scenery | P |
| Went to work and invented machinery | P |
| While a couple of other mental giants | K |
| Got together | S |
| And thought up Science | K |
| Platinum blondes | K |
| They were once peroxide | T |
| Peruvian bonds | K |
| And carbon monoxide | T |
| Tax evaders | K |
| And Vitamin A | Q |
| Vice crusaders | K |
| And tattletale gray | O |
| These with many another phobia | Q |
| We owe to that famous Twelfth of Octobia | Q |
| O misery misery mumble and moan | I |
| Someone invented the telephone | I |
| And interrupted a nation's slumbers | K |
| Ringing wrong but similar numbers | K |
| Someone devised the silver screen | U |
| And the intimate Hollywood magazine | U |
| And life is a Hades | K |
| Of clicking cameras | K |
| And foreign ladies | K |
| Behaving amorous | K |
| Gags have erased | V |
| Amusing dialog | W |
| As gas has replaced | V |
| The crackling firelog | W |
| All that glitters is sold as gold | X |
| And our daily diet grows odder and odder | S |
| And breakfast foods are dusty and cold | X |
| It's a wise child | Y |
| That knows its fodder | S |
| Someone invented the automobile | Z |
| And good Americans took the wheel | Z |
| To view American rivers and rills | K |
| And justly famous forests and hills | K |
| But someone equally enterprising | W |
| Had invented billboard advertising | W |
| You linger at home | A2 |
| In dark despair | B2 |
| And wistfully try the electric air | B2 |
| You hope against hope for a quiz imperial | C2 |
| And what do they give you | A |
| A doctor serial | C2 |
| Oh Columbus was only a cornerstone | I |
| And well enough wasn't left alone | I |
| For the Inquisition was less tyrannical | C2 |
| Than the iron rules of an age mechanical | C2 |
| Which because of an error in ' | - |
| Are clamped like corsets on me and you | A |
| While Children of Nature we'd be today | O |
| If San Domingo | W |
| Had been Cathay | O |
| - | |
| And that you may think my friends is that | H |
| But it isn't not by a fireman's hat | H |
| The American people | C2 |
| With grins jocose | K |
| Always survive the fatal dose | K |
| And though our systems are slightly wobbly | P |
| We'll fool the doctor this time probly | P |
Ogden Nash
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