U and I
Pauline Frances Bishop Camp 1863 (Boston, MA) – 1939 (Springfield, MO)
All the letters of the alphabet
The righteous way should choose,
But two of them, especially,
Should mind their P's and Q's;
A deal of trouble in this world,
And much that goes awry,
Could be prevented easily
By these two, U and I.
If U and I are cross, you see
There's bound to be a fuss;
If U and I untidy are,
Somewhere there'll be a muss.
If U and I are selfish, there
Will some one suffer wrong;
If U and I rob birds' nests, why,
The world will lose a song.
If some one feels dejected, or
'Tis cloudy for a while,
The sunshine may come back again
If U or I but smile.
If U should grumble, whine, or pout,
Or I should snarl and fret,
A storm would soon be raging that
We should not soon forget!
So U, look out, and mind your ways!
As I must likewise do,
And keep a cheery corner where
The skies are always blue.
The A's and B's and E's and O's
Do work that's good and great,
But U and I can do the most
To keep this old world straight.
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Written on 1909
Submitted by JokerGem on December 09, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCBXDCD CXXBEFDF XGXGXAXA XHEHXIXI |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 990 |
Words | 219 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
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