So Does Everybody Else, Only Not So Much Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A| O all ye exorcizers come and exorcize now and ye clergymen draw nigh and clerge For I wish to be purged of an urge It is an irksome urge compounded of nettles and glue And it is turning all my friends back into acquaintances and all my acquaintances into people who look the other way when I heave into view It is an indication that my mental buttery is butterless and my mental larder lardless And it consists not of Stop me if you've heard this one but of I know you've heard this one because I told it to you myself but I'm going to tell it to you again regardless Yes I fear I am living beyond my mental means When I realize that it is not only anecdotes that I reiterate but what is far worse summaries of radio programs and descriptions of caroons in newspapers and magazines I want to resist but I cannot resist recounting the bright sayins of celebrities that everybody already is familiar with every word of I want to refrain but cannot refrain from telling the same audience on two successive evenings the same little snatches of domestic gossip about people I used to know that they have never heard of When I remember some titlating episode of my childhood I figure that if it's worth narrating once it's worth narrating twice in spite of lackluster eyes and dropping jaws And indeed I have now worked my way backward from titllating episodes in my own childhood to titillating episodes in the childhood of my parents or even my parents in laws And what really turns my corpuscles to ice I carry around clippings and read them to people twice And I know what I am doing while I am doing it and I don't want to do it but I can't help doing it and I am just another Ancient Mariner And the prospects for my future social life couldn't possibly be barrener Did I tell you that the prospects for my future social life couldn't be barrener | A |
Ogden Nash
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