John Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBABBCCDBBD EEFFGHHGII JJJJJJ KKL LMMNN LLOO PPQQ RRSOSOTUUVV WXWXUUNN LYLLLYKKOOOO ZZOOOOOO

He's a boyA
And that's the long and chiefly the short of itB
And the point of it and the wonderful sport of itB
A two year old with a taste for a toyA
And two chubby fists to clutch it and grasp itB
And two fat arms to embrace it and clasp itB
And a short stout couple of sturdy legsC
As hard and as smooth as ostrich eggsC
And a jolly round head so fairly roundD
You could easily roll itB
Or take it and bowl itB
With never a bump along the groundD
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And as to his cheeks they're also fatE
I've seen them in ancient prints like thatE
Where a wind boy highF
In a cloudy skyF
Is puffing away for all he's worthG
Uprooting the treesH
With a reckless breezeH
And strewing them over the patient earthG
Or raising a storm to wreck the shipsI
With the work of his lungs and cheeks and lipsI
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Take a look at his eyes I put it to youJ
Were ever two eyes more truly blueJ
If you went and worried the whole world throughJ
You'd never discover a bluer blueJ
I doubt if you'd find a blue so trueJ
In the coats and scarves of a Cambridge crewJ
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And his hairK
Is as fairK
As a pretty girl'sL
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But it's right for a boy with its crisp short curlsL
All a gleam as he struts aboutM
With a laugh and a shoutM
To summon his sister slaves to himN
For his joyous Majesty's careless whimN
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But now as after a stand he budgesL
And sets to work and solemnly trudgesL
Out from a bush there springs full tiltO
His four legged playmate and John is spiltO
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She's a young dog and a strong dogP
And a tall dog and a long dogP
A Danish lady of high degreeQ
Black coat kind eye and a stride that's freeQ
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And out she cameR
Like a burst of flameR
And JohnS
As he trudged and struttedO
Sturdily onS
Was blindly buttedO
And all his dignity spent and goneT
On a patch of cloverU
Was tumbled overU
His two short legs having failed to scoreV
In a sudden match against Lufra's fourV
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But we picked him upW
And we brushed him downX
And he rated the pupW
With a dreadful frownX
And then he laughed and he went and hugged herU
Seized her tail in his fist and tugged herU
And so with a sister's hand to guide himN
Continued his march with the dog beside himN
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And soon he waggles his way upstairsL
He does it alone though he finds it steepY
He is stripped and gowned and he says his prayersL
And he condescendsL
To admit his friendsL
To a levee before he goes to sleepY
He thrones it thereK
With a battered bearK
And a tattered monkey to form his CourtO
And having come to the end of dayO
Conceives that this is the time for playO
And every possible kind of sportO
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But at last tucked in for the hundredth timeZ
He babbles a bit of nursery rhymeZ
And on the bedO
Droops his curly round headO
Gives one long sigh of unalloyed contentO
Over a day so well so proudly spentO
Resigned at last to listen and obeyO
And so begins to breathe his quiet night awayO

R. C. Lehmann



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