One From One Leaves Two Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDCC EEFFGGHH IIJJKKLL MMNNJJOOPP| Higgledy piggledy my black hen | A |
| She lays eggs for gentlemen | B |
| Gentlemen come every day | C |
| To count what my black hen doth lay | C |
| If perchance she lays too many | D |
| They fine my hen a pretty penny | D |
| If perchance she fails to lay | C |
| The gentlemen a bonus pay | C |
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| Mumbledy pumbledy my red cow | E |
| She s cooperating now | E |
| At first she didn t understand | F |
| That milk production must be planned | F |
| She didn t understand at first | G |
| She either had to plan or burst | G |
| But now the government reports | H |
| She s giving pints instead of quarts | H |
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| Fiddle de dee my next door neighbors | I |
| They are giggling at their labors | I |
| First they plant the tiny seed | J |
| Then they water then they weed | J |
| Then they hoe and prune and lop | K |
| They they raise a record crop | K |
| Then they laugh their sides asunder | L |
| And plow the whole caboodle under | L |
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| Abracadabra thus we learn | M |
| The more you create the less you earn | M |
| The less you earn the more you re given | N |
| The less you lead the more you re driven | N |
| The more destroyed the more they feed | J |
| The more you pay the more they need | J |
| The more you earn the less you keep | O |
| And now I lay me down to sleep | O |
| I pray the Lord my soul to take | P |
| If the tax collector hasn t got it before I wake | P |
Ogden Nash
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