Waiting For Geppetto
Neil McLeod 1947 (Oxford)
Waiting For Geppetto
Geppetto the carpenter, Pinocchio's famed father- For Francoise whose daughter Maelise dances ballet with our daughter Maran, and whose sad chair went to Doctor McLeod's hospital
My arm is split, my legs are weak,
In fact they come apart,
You really shouldn't sit on me
Unless you're strong of heart,
And you should really understand
My useful days are done.
I'm waiting for Geppetto,
I'm praying he will come.
There was a time when I was new
A long, long time ago,
We left the wood shop in a cart
Six chairs in a row.
We even had a table
That came with us in the set.
The wanting of Geppetto
Had not dawned upon us yet.
Now I am old and broken too,
I've been fixed at many points,
And hard and crusty lumps of glue
Are bunging up my joints.
And should you sit upon me
I fear I'll fall apart,
I'm waiting for Geppetto
To bring to me his art.
Geppetto, he could mend me
He'd bring out clamps and glue
He'd clean the crust from out my joints
And make me good as new.
So as you go about your day
Where ever you may roam
If you see Geppetto
Have him come and take me home.
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Submitted by NeilMcLeod on February 08, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | a b xacaaxAx deaebaaa afdfcaAa cdfdagag |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,056 |
Words | 214 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
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