The Saginaw Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEB FGHBIB AJKLMJ NOPOOO KJQJKJ RSTSUS KVWVTV XYZYKYY A2 B2C2D2C2E2C2 F2G2H2G2JG2| In Saginaw in Saginaw | A |
| The wind blows up your feet | B |
| When the ladies guild puts on a feed | C |
| There s beans on every plate | D |
| And if you eat more than you should | E |
| Destruction is complete | B |
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| Out Hemlock Way there is a stream | F |
| That some have called Swan Creek | G |
| The turtles have bloodsucker sores | H |
| And mossy filthy feet | B |
| The bottoms of migrating ducks | I |
| Come off it much less neat | B |
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| In Saginaw in Saginaw | A |
| Bartenders think no ill | J |
| But they ve ways of indicating when | K |
| You are not acting well | L |
| They throw you through the front plate glass | M |
| And then send you the bill | J |
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| The Morleys and the Burrows are | N |
| The aristocracy | O |
| A likely thing for they re no worse | P |
| Than the likes of you or me | O |
| A picture window s one you can t | O |
| Raise up when you would pee | O |
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| In Shaginaw in Shaginaw | K |
| I went to Shunday Shule | J |
| The only thing I ever learned | Q |
| Was called the Golden Rhule | J |
| But that s enough for any man | K |
| What s not a proper fool | J |
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| I took the pledge cards on my bike | R |
| I helped out with the books | S |
| The stingy members when they signed | T |
| Made with their stingy looks | S |
| The largest contributions came | U |
| From the town s biggest crooks | S |
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| In Saginaw in Saginaw | K |
| There s never a household fart | V |
| For if it did occur | W |
| It would blow the place apart | V |
| I met a woman who could break wind | T |
| And she is my sweet heart | V |
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| O I m the genius of the world | X |
| Of that you can be sure | Y |
| But alas alack and me achin back | Z |
| I m often a drunken boor | Y |
| But when I die and that won t be soon | K |
| I ll sing with dear Tom Moore | Y |
| With that lovely man Tom Moore | Y |
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| Coda | A2 |
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| My father never used a stick | B2 |
| He slapped me with his hand | C2 |
| He was a Prussian through and through | D2 |
| And knew how to command | C2 |
| I ran behind him every day | E2 |
| He walked our greenhouse land | C2 |
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| I saw a figure in a cloud | F2 |
| A child upon her breast | G2 |
| And it was O my mother O | H2 |
| And she was half undressed | G2 |
| All women O are beautiful | J |
| When they are half undressed | G2 |
Theodore Roethke
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