Franklin Hyde
Hilaire Belloc 1870 (La Celle-Saint-Cloud) – 1953
Who caroused in the Dirt and was corrected by His Uncle.
His Uncle came upon Franklin Hyde
Carousing in the Dirt.
He Shook him hard from Side to Side
And Hit him till it Hurt,
Exclaiming, with a Final Thud,
"Take that! Abandoned boy!
For Playing with Disgusting Mud
As though it were a Toy!"
Moral:
From Franklin Hyde's adventure, learn
To pass your Leisure Time
In Cleanly Merriment, and turn
From Mud and Ooze and Slime
And every form of Nastiness-
But, on the other Hand,
Children in ordinary Dress
May always play with Sand.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | A BCBC DEDE AFGFGXHXH |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 519 |
Words | 99 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 9 |
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