Possessions Are Nine Points Of Conversation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A| Some people and it doesn't matter whether they are paupers or millionaires Think that anything they have is the best in the world just because it is theirs If they happen to own a jalopy They look at their neighbor's new de luxe convertible like the wearer of a th Street gown at a th Street copy If their seventeen year old child is still in the third grade they sneer at the graduation of the seventeen year old children of their friends Claiming that prodigies always come to bad ends And if their roof leaks It's because the shingles are antiques Other people and if doesn't matter if they are Scandinavians or Celts Think that anything is better than theirs just because it belongs to somebody else If you congratulate them when their blue blooded Doberman pinscher wins the obedience championship they look at you like a martyr And say that the garbage man's little Rover is really infinitely smarter And if they smoke fifteen cent cigars they are sure somebody else gets better cigars for a dime And if they take a trip to Paris they are sure their friends who went to Old Orchard had a better time Yes they look on their neighbor's ox and ass with covetousness and their own ox and ass with abhorrence And if they are wives they want their husband to be like Florence's Freddie and if they are husbands they want their wives to be like Freddie's Florence I think that comparisons are truly odious I do not approve of this constant proud or envious to do And furthermore dear friends I think that you and yours are delightful and I also think that me and mine are delightful too | A |
Ogden Nash
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