Market Square Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCB DDDB AAEBCCFB GGGB FFHBCFCB FIFB IIIBIIFB FGDB| I had a penny | A |
| A bright new penny | A |
| I took my penny | A |
| To the market square | B |
| I wanted a rabbit | C |
| A little brown rabbit | C |
| And I looked for a rabbit | C |
| 'Most everywhere | B |
| - | |
| For I went to the stall where they sold sweet lavender | D |
| Only a penny for a bunch of lavender | D |
| Have you got a rabbit 'cos I don't want lavender | D |
| But they hadn't got a rabbit not anywhere there | B |
| - | |
| I had a penny | A |
| And I had another penny | A |
| I took my pennies | E |
| To the market square | B |
| I did want a rabbit | C |
| A little baby rabbit | C |
| And I looked for rabbits | F |
| 'Most everywhere | B |
| - | |
| And I went to the stall where they sold fresh mackerel | G |
| Now then Tuppence for a fresh caught mackerel | G |
| Have you got a rabbit 'cos I don't like mackerel | G |
| But they hadn't got a rabbit not anywhere there | B |
| - | |
| I found a sixpence | F |
| A little white sixpence | F |
| I took it in my hand | H |
| To the market square | B |
| I was buying my rabbit | C |
| I do like rabbits | F |
| And I looked for my rabbit | C |
| 'Most everywhere | B |
| - | |
| So I went to the stall where they sold fine saucepans | F |
| Walk up walk up sixpence for a saucepan | I |
| Could I have a rabbit 'cos we've got two saucepans | F |
| But they hadn't got a rabbit not anywhere there | B |
| - | |
| I had nuffin' | I |
| No I hadn't got nuffin' | I |
| So I didn't go down | I |
| To the market square | B |
| But I walked on the common | I |
| The old gold common | I |
| And I saw little rabbits | F |
| 'Most everywhere | B |
| - | |
| So I'm sorry for the people who sell fine saucepans | F |
| I'm sorry for the people who sell fresh mackerel | G |
| I'm sorry for the people who sell sweet lavender | D |
| 'Cos they haven't got a rabbit not anywhere there | B |
Alan Alexander Milne
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