Over the river and through the woods rhyme scheme by lydia maria child

The rhyme scheme in "Over the river and through the woods" is:

ABCB ABDB ACEC ACFC AGBG AHIH

Explanation:

To determine the rhyme scheme of a poem, we must attribute a letter to each different final sound that appears in the last word of each line. We should always attribute the letter A to the first final sound. Every different sound that follows then should be attributed the next letter of the alphabet. Thus:

Over the river and through the woods,  A

To grandfather's* house we go;  B

The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh,  C

Thru the white and drifted snow, oh!  B

Over the river and thru the woods,  A

Oh, how the wind does blow!  B

It stings the toes and bites the nose,  D

As over the ground we go.  B

Over the river and thru the wood,  A

To have a first-rate play;  C

Oh, hear the bell ring, "Ting-a-ling-ling!"  E

Hurrah for Thanksgiving Day-ay!  C

Over the river and thru the woods, A

Trot fast my dapple gray!  C

Spring over the ground like a hunting hound,  F

For this is Thanksgiving Day!  C

Over the river and through the woods,  A

And straight through the barnyard gate.  G

We seem to go extremely slow,  B

It is so hard to wait!  G

Over the river and through the woods,  A

Now Grandmother's cap I spy!  H

Hurrah for fun! Is the pudding done?  I

Hurrah for the pumpkin pie! H

Note: If we take a good look at the third stanza, we will notice the the final word of the first line is "wood" and not "woods", which actually makes it different from the first lines in the other stanzas. If we were to consider it different, then it should be labeled E, not A. It may have been intentional, it may have been an accident. I decided to label it an A, since the first lines are supposed to be the same. If we change it for an E, then we must change E to F, F to G, and so on.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)