Put A Penny In The Slot Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE EEFFGEEEEE HHEEFEIIEE| If my action's stiff and crude | A |
| Do not laugh because it's rude | A |
| If my gestures promise larks | B |
| Do not make unkind remarks | B |
| Clockwork figures may be found | C |
| Everywhere and all around | C |
| Ten to one if I but knew | D |
| You are clockwork figures too | D |
| And the motto of the lot | E |
| quot Put a penny in the slot quot | E |
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| Usurer for money lent | E |
| Making out his cent per cent | E |
| Widow plump or maiden rare | F |
| Deaf and dumb to suitor's prayer | F |
| Tax collectors whom in vain | G |
| You implore to quot call again quot | E |
| Cautious voter whom you find | E |
| Slow in making up his mind | E |
| If you'd move them on the spot | E |
| Put a penny in the slot | E |
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| Bland reporters in the courts | H |
| Who suppress police reports | H |
| Sheriff's yeoman pen in fist | E |
| Making out a jury list | E |
| Stern policemen tall and spare | F |
| Acting all quot upon the square quot | E |
| Which in words that plainer fall | I |
| Means that you can square them all | I |
| If you want to move the lot | E |
| Put a penny in the slot | E |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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