Welcome To The Chicago Commercial Club Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DEFG HHII JJKK LLMM NNOO PPCC QGDE| January | A |
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| CHICAGO sounds rough to the maker of verse | B |
| One comfort we have Cincinnati sounds worse | B |
| If we only were licensed to say Chicago | C |
| But Worcester and Webster won't let us you know | C |
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| No matter we songsters must sing as we can | D |
| We can make some nice couplets with Lake Michigan | E |
| And what more resembles a nightingale's voice | F |
| Than the oily trisyllable sweet Illinois | G |
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| Your waters are fresh while our harbor is salt | H |
| But we know you can't help it it is n't your fault | H |
| Our city is old and your city is new | I |
| But the railroad men tell us we're greener than you | I |
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| You have seen our gilt dome and no doubt you've been told | J |
| That the orbs of the universe round it are rolled | J |
| But I'll own it to you and I ought to know best | K |
| That this is n't quite true of all stars of the West | K |
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| You'll go to Mount Auburn we'll show you the track | L |
| And can stay there unless you prefer to come back | L |
| And Bunker's tall shaft you can climb if you will | M |
| But you'll puff like a paragraph praising a pill | M |
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| You must see but you have seen our old Faneuil Hall | N |
| Our churches our school rooms our sample rooms all | N |
| And perhaps though the idiots must have their jokes | O |
| You have found our good people much like other folks | O |
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| There are cities by rivers by lakes and by seas | P |
| Each as full of itself as a cheese mite of cheese | P |
| And a city will brag as a game cock will crow | C |
| Don't your cockerels at home just a little you know | C |
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| But we'll crow for you now here's a health to the boys | Q |
| Men maidens and matrons of fair Illinois | G |
| And the rainbow of friendship that arches its span | D |
| From the green of the sea to the blue Michigan | E |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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