The Disturber Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGDD HHIIJ DD KKLLMMDD| Oh what shall I do I am wholly upset | A |
| I am sure I 'll be jailed for a lunatic yet | A |
| I 'll be out of a job it's the thing to expect | B |
| When I 'm letting my duty go by with neglect | B |
| You may judge the extent and degree of my plight | C |
| When I 'm thinking all day and a dreaming all night | C |
| And a trying my hand at a rhyme on the sly | D |
| All on account of a sparkling eye | D |
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| There are those who say men should be strong well a day | E |
| But what constitutes strength in a man Who shall say | E |
| I am strong as the most when it comes to the arm | F |
| I have aye held my own on the playground or farm | F |
| And when I 've been tempted I haven't been weak | G |
| But now why I tremble to hear a maid speak | G |
| I used to be bold but now I 've grown shy | D |
| And all on account of a sparkling eye | D |
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| There once was a time when my heart was devout | H |
| But now my religion is open to doubt | H |
| When parson is earnestly preaching of grace | I |
| My fancy is busy with drawing a face | I |
| Thro' the back of a bonnet most piously plain | J |
| 'I draw it redraw it and draw it again ' | - |
| While the songs and the sermon unheeded go by | D |
| All on account of a sparkling eye | D |
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| Oh dear little conjurer give o'er your wiles | K |
| It is easy for you you're all blushes and smiles | K |
| But love of my heart I am sorely perplexed | L |
| I am smiling one minute and sighing the next | L |
| And if it goes on I 'll drop hackle and flail | M |
| And go to the parson and tell him my tale | M |
| I warrant he 'll find me a cure for the sigh | D |
| That you 're aye bringing forth with the glance of your eye | D |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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