Girl Graduates Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDDDBDBBBBB BBDE EDEDFGFGEBEBHHHB BBDE| They intend to send a wire | A |
| To the moon | B |
| And they'll set the Thames on fire | A |
| Very soon | B |
| Then they learn to make silk purses | C |
| With their rigs | D |
| From the ears of LADY CIRCE'S | D |
| Piggy wigs | D |
| And weasels at their slumbers | D |
| They'll trepan | B |
| To get sunbeams from cuCUMbers | D |
| They've a plan | B |
| They've a firmly rooted notion | B |
| They can cross the Polar Ocean | B |
| And they'll find Perpetual Motion | B |
| If they can | B |
| - | |
| These are the phenomena | B |
| That every pretty domina | B |
| Hopes that we shall see | D |
| At this Universitee | E |
| - | |
| As for fashion they forswear it | E |
| So they say | D |
| And the circle they will square it | E |
| Some fine day | D |
| Then the little pigs they're teaching | F |
| For to fly | G |
| And the niggers they'll be bleaching | F |
| By and by | G |
| Each newly joined aspirant | E |
| To the clan | B |
| Must repudiate the tyrant | E |
| Known as Man | B |
| They mock at him and flout him | H |
| For they do not care about him | H |
| And they're going to do without him | H |
| If they can | B |
| - | |
| These are the phenomena | B |
| That every pretty domina | B |
| Hopes that we shall see | D |
| At this Universitee | E |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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