Travel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A A BBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK LLMMNNDDOOPPQQRRKK SSTTUUVVWWMX| From Farmer Harrington's Calendar | A |
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| NOVEMBER | A |
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| It's quite the thing to travel nowadays | B |
| Although I do not think it always pays | B |
| And see if distant ground in general looks | C |
| As mentioned in the papers and in books | C |
| I find in sifting what few facts I know | D |
| Three ways of realizing things are so | D |
| First when you're told them in such trusty shape | E |
| That square belief isn't easy to escape | E |
| There's lots of people this town wouldn't hold them | F |
| Who don't know much excepting what is told them | F |
| Second what you've put on some mental shelf | G |
| By having seen and understood yourself | G |
| How well we know things witnessed largely lies | H |
| On how much brain there is behind our eyes | H |
| The third way is the surest and the best | I |
| Though sometimes painful it must be confessed | I |
| It's where a truth has whipped the earth with you | J |
| Until you feel from head to foot 'tis true | J |
| I think sometimes when all is said and done | K |
| Feeling is all the senses joined in one | K |
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| We're going to travel not so very far | L |
| As our new friends the Fitzcumnoodles are | L |
| Who cannot read their social title's clear | M |
| Unless they ride twelve thousand miles a year | M |
| I told them with a philosophic smile | N |
| That travelling shouldn't be measured by the mile | N |
| But we shall take a little trip to morrow | D |
| With some spare time that wife's contrived to borrow | D |
| To where George Washington laid out a town | O |
| That several centuries won't see tumbled down | O |
| A city which with all the sneaking sinners | P |
| That come down there to steal their daily dinners | P |
| And all the human insects hovering nigh | Q |
| Such as swarm thick wherever good things lie | Q |
| And spite of all the bad weeds growing round | R |
| Has always some good folks upon the ground | R |
| And will be head piece of the greatest nation | K |
| That ever helped spruce up the Lord's plantation | K |
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| The Fitzcumnoodles through their daughter Maud | S |
| Inform us that we ought to go abroad | S |
| The Clancdenancies we have lately learned | T |
| From an extended trip have just returned | T |
| And so my eldest daughter Isabel | U |
| Who knows Miss Clanc etc very well | U |
| Called on her in the progress of a walk | V |
| And had a pleasant little travel talk | V |
| And after coming home misspent her time | W |
| In putting what she heard there into rhyme | W |
| And lost it not by accident I fear | M |
| I'll paste the conversation right in here | X |
William Mckendree Carleton
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