To A Small Boy Standing On My Shoes While I Am Wearing Them Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDCCEEFFCCCCFF GGFF| Let's straighten this out my little man | A |
| And reach an agreement if we can | A |
| I entered your door as an honored guest | B |
| My shoes are shined and my trousers are pressed | B |
| And I won't stretch out and read you the funnies | C |
| And I won't pretend that we're Easter bunnies | C |
| If you must get somebody down on the floor | D |
| What in the hell are your parents for | D |
| I do not like the things that you say | C |
| And I hate the games that you want to play | C |
| No matter how frightfully hard you try | E |
| We've little in common you and I | E |
| The interest I take in my neighbor's nursery | F |
| Would have to grow to be even cursory | F |
| And I would that performing sons and nephews | C |
| Were carted away with the daily refuse | C |
| And I hold that frolicsome daughters and nieces | C |
| Are ample excuse for breaking leases | C |
| You may take a sock at your daddy's tummy | F |
| Or climb all over your doting mummy | F |
| But keep your attentions to me in check | G |
| Or sonny boy I will wring your neck | G |
| A happier man today I'd be | F |
| Had someone wrung it ahead of me | F |
Ogden Nash
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