Grumpy Grandpa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCACA ADADEAEA AFAFGAGAGrand daughter of the Painted Nails | A |
As if they had been dipped in gore | B |
I'd like to set you lugging pails | A |
And make you scrub the kitchen floor | B |
I'm old and crotchety of course | C |
And on this point my patience fails | A |
I'd sue my old girl for divorce | C |
If she showed up with painted nails | A |
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Grand daughter of the Painted Nails | A |
Like to a Jezebel are you | D |
Do you expect to snare the males | A |
With talons of such bloody hue | D |
I could forgive your smudging lips | E |
Your scarlet cheek that powder veils | A |
But not your sanguine finger tips | E |
Don't paw me with your painted nails | A |
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Grand daughter of the Painted Nails | A |
Were I the sire of maidens ten | F |
I'd curse them over hills and dales | A |
And hold them to the scorn of men | F |
If they had claws of crimson dye | G |
Aye though they sang like nightingales | A |
Unto the welkin I would cry | G |
Avaunt ye hags with Painted Nails | A |
Robert William Service
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