John Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBABBCCDBBD EEFFGHHGII JJJJJJ KKL LMMNN LLOO PPQQ RRSOSOTUUVV WXWXUUNN LYLLLYKKOOOO ZZOOOOOOHe's a boy | A |
And that's the long and chiefly the short of it | B |
And the point of it and the wonderful sport of it | B |
A two year old with a taste for a toy | A |
And two chubby fists to clutch it and grasp it | B |
And two fat arms to embrace it and clasp it | B |
And a short stout couple of sturdy legs | C |
As hard and as smooth as ostrich eggs | C |
And a jolly round head so fairly round | D |
You could easily roll it | B |
Or take it and bowl it | B |
With never a bump along the ground | D |
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And as to his cheeks they're also fat | E |
I've seen them in ancient prints like that | E |
Where a wind boy high | F |
In a cloudy sky | F |
Is puffing away for all he's worth | G |
Uprooting the trees | H |
With a reckless breeze | H |
And strewing them over the patient earth | G |
Or raising a storm to wreck the ships | I |
With the work of his lungs and cheeks and lips | I |
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Take a look at his eyes I put it to you | J |
Were ever two eyes more truly blue | J |
If you went and worried the whole world through | J |
You'd never discover a bluer blue | J |
I doubt if you'd find a blue so true | J |
In the coats and scarves of a Cambridge crew | J |
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And his hair | K |
Is as fair | K |
As a pretty girl's | L |
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But it's right for a boy with its crisp short curls | L |
All a gleam as he struts about | M |
With a laugh and a shout | M |
To summon his sister slaves to him | N |
For his joyous Majesty's careless whim | N |
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But now as after a stand he budges | L |
And sets to work and solemnly trudges | L |
Out from a bush there springs full tilt | O |
His four legged playmate and John is spilt | O |
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She's a young dog and a strong dog | P |
And a tall dog and a long dog | P |
A Danish lady of high degree | Q |
Black coat kind eye and a stride that's free | Q |
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And out she came | R |
Like a burst of flame | R |
And John | S |
As he trudged and strutted | O |
Sturdily on | S |
Was blindly butted | O |
And all his dignity spent and gone | T |
On a patch of clover | U |
Was tumbled over | U |
His two short legs having failed to score | V |
In a sudden match against Lufra's four | V |
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But we picked him up | W |
And we brushed him down | X |
And he rated the pup | W |
With a dreadful frown | X |
And then he laughed and he went and hugged her | U |
Seized her tail in his fist and tugged her | U |
And so with a sister's hand to guide him | N |
Continued his march with the dog beside him | N |
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And soon he waggles his way upstairs | L |
He does it alone though he finds it steep | Y |
He is stripped and gowned and he says his prayers | L |
And he condescends | L |
To admit his friends | L |
To a levee before he goes to sleep | Y |
He thrones it there | K |
With a battered bear | K |
And a tattered monkey to form his Court | O |
And having come to the end of day | O |
Conceives that this is the time for play | O |
And every possible kind of sport | O |
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But at last tucked in for the hundredth time | Z |
He babbles a bit of nursery rhyme | Z |
And on the bed | O |
Droops his curly round head | O |
Gives one long sigh of unalloyed content | O |
Over a day so well so proudly spent | O |
Resigned at last to listen and obey | O |
And so begins to breathe his quiet night away | O |
R. C. Lehmann
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