Aunt Tabitha Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDEE FFGG HHCC IIBB JJKK LLMM NNCC| THE YOUNG GIRL'S POEM | A |
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| WHATEVER I do and whatever I say | B |
| Aunt Tabitha tells me that is n't the way | B |
| When she was a girl forty summers ago | C |
| Aunt Tabitha tells me they never did so | C |
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| Dear aunt If I only would take her advice | D |
| But I like my own way and I find it so nice | D |
| And besides I forget half the things I am told | E |
| But they all will come back to me when I am old | E |
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| If a youth passes by it may happen no doubt | F |
| He may chance to look in as I chance to look out | F |
| She would never endure an impertinent stare | G |
| It is horrid she says and I must n't sit there | G |
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| A walk in the moonlight has pleasures I own | H |
| But it is n't quite safe to be walking alone | H |
| So I take a lad's arm just for safety you know | C |
| But Aunt Tabitha tells me they did n't do so | C |
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| How wicked we are and how good they were then | I |
| They kept at arm's length those detestable men | I |
| What an era of virtue she lived in But stay | B |
| Were the men all such rogues in Aunt Tabitha's day | B |
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| If the men were so wicked I 'll ask my papa | J |
| How he dared to propose to my darling mamma | J |
| Was he like the rest of them Goodness Who knows | K |
| And what shall I say if a wretch should propose | K |
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| I am thinking if Aunt knew so little of sin | L |
| What a wonder Aunt Tabitha's aunt must have been | L |
| And her grand aunt it scares me how shockingly sad | M |
| That we girls of to day are so frightfully bad | M |
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| A martyr will save us and nothing else can | N |
| Let me perish to rescue some wretched young man | N |
| Though when to the altar a victim I go | C |
| Aunt Tabitha 'll tell me she never did so | C |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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