You Can Be A Republican, I'm A Genocrat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAA AAAAAA CDEDAA FGFGHH IJKJDD LMNMOO LPLPAA| Oh rorty was a mid Victorian word | A |
| Which meant fine splendid jolly | B |
| And often to me it has reoccurred | A |
| In moments melancholy | B |
| For instance children I think it rorty | A |
| To be with people over forty | A |
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| I can't say which come eventide | A |
| More tedious I find | A |
| Competing with the juvenile stride | A |
| Or meeting the juvenile mind | A |
| So I think it rorty yes and nifty | A |
| To be with people over fifty | A |
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| The pidgin talk the youthful use | C |
| Bypasses conversation | D |
| I can't believe the code they choose | E |
| Is a means of communication | D |
| Oh to be with people over sixty | A |
| Despite their tendency to prolixty | A |
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| The hours a working parent keeps | F |
| Mean less than Latin to them | G |
| Wherefore they disappear in jeeps | F |
| Till three and four A M | G |
| Oh to be with people you pour a cup for | H |
| Instead of people you have to wait up for | H |
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| I've tried to read young mumbling lips | I |
| Till I've developed a slant eye | J |
| And my hearing fails at the constant wails | K |
| Of If I can't why can't I | J |
| Oh to be beside a septuagenarian | D |
| Silent upon a peak in Darien | D |
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| They don't know Hagen from Bobby Jones | L |
| They never heard of Al Smith | M |
| Even Red Grange is beyond their range | N |
| And Dempsey is a myth | M |
| Oh golly to gabble upon the shoulder | O |
| Of someone my own age or even older | O |
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| I'm tired of defining hadn't oughts | L |
| To opposition mulish | P |
| The thoughts of youth are long long thoughts | L |
| And Jingo Aren't they foolish | P |
| All which is why in case you've wondered | A |
| I'd like a companion aged one hundred | A |
Ogden Nash
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