Teddy Bear Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEE FFGGHGIG JJGGKGLL MMNNOOGG FFGGGGPG QGFFRRGG JSGGGGGO LLGGTUGG GGMMKGVG NGGGIGOG IIGGWWGR AAGGXXGG| A bear however hard he tries | A |
| Grows tubby without exercise | A |
| Our Teddy Bear is short and fat | B |
| Which is not to be wondered at | B |
| He gets what exercise he can | C |
| By falling off the ottoman | D |
| But generally seems to lack | E |
| The energy to clamber back | E |
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| Now tubbiness is just the thing | F |
| Which gets a fellow wondering | F |
| And Teddy worried lots about | G |
| The fact that he was rather stout | G |
| He thought quot If only I were thin | H |
| But how does anyone begin quot | G |
| He thought quot It really isn't fair | I |
| To grudge one exercise and air quot | G |
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| For many weeks he pressed in vain | J |
| His nose against the window pane | J |
| And envied those who walked about | G |
| Reducing their unwanted stout | G |
| None of the people he could see | K |
| quot Is quite quot he said quot as fat as me quot | G |
| Then with a still more moving sigh | L |
| quot I mean quot he said quot as fat as I | L |
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| One night it happened that he took | M |
| A peep at an old picture book | M |
| Wherein he came across by chance | N |
| The picture of a King of France | N |
| A stoutish man and down below | O |
| These words quot King Louis So and So | O |
| Nicknamed 'The Handsome ' quot There he sat | G |
| And think of it the man was fat | G |
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| Our bear rejoiced like anything | F |
| To read about this famous King | F |
| Nicknamed quot The Handsome quot There he sat | G |
| And certainly the man was fat | G |
| Nicknamed quot The Handsome quot Not a doubt | G |
| The man was definitely stout | G |
| Why then a bear for all his tub | P |
| Might yet be named quot The Handsome Cub quot | G |
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| quot Might yet be named quot Or did he mean | Q |
| That years ago he quot might have been quot | G |
| For now he felt a slight misgiving | F |
| quot Is Louis So and So still living | F |
| Fashions in beauty have a way | R |
| Of altering from day to day | R |
| Is 'Handsome Louis' with us yet | G |
| Unfortunately I forget quot | G |
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| Next morning nose to window pane | J |
| The doubt occurred to him again | S |
| One question hammered in his head | G |
| quot Is he alive or is he dead quot | G |
| Thus nose to pane he pondered but | G |
| The lattice window loosely shut | G |
| Swung open With one startled quot Oh quot | G |
| Our Teddy disappeared below | O |
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| There happened to be passing by | L |
| A plump man with a twinkling eye | L |
| Who seeing Teddy in the street | G |
| Raised him politely to his feet | G |
| And murmured kindly in his ear | T |
| Soft words of comfort and of cheer | U |
| quot Well well quot quot Allow me quot quot Not at all quot | G |
| quot Tut tut A very nasty fall quot | G |
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| Our Teddy answered not a word | G |
| It's doubtful if he even heard | G |
| Our bear could only look and look | M |
| The stout man in the picture book | M |
| That 'handsome' King could this be he | K |
| This man of adiposity | G |
| quot Impossible quot he thought quot But still | V |
| No harm in asking Yes I will quot | G |
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| quot Are you quot he said quot by any chance | N |
| His Majesty the King of France quot | G |
| The other answered quot I am that quot | G |
| Bowed stiffly and removed his hat | G |
| Then said quot Excuse me quot with an air | I |
| quot But is it Mr Edward Bear quot | G |
| And Teddy bending very low | O |
| Replied politely quot Even so quot | G |
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| They stood beneath the window there | I |
| The King and Mr Edward Bear | I |
| And handsome if a trifle fat | G |
| Talked carelessly of this and that | G |
| Then said His Majesty quot Well well | W |
| I must get on quot and rang the bell | W |
| quot Your bear I think quot he smiled quot Good day quot | G |
| And turned and went upon his way | R |
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| A bear however hard he tries | A |
| Grows tubby without exercise | A |
| Our Teddy Bear is short and fat | G |
| Which is not to be wondered at | G |
| But do you think it worries him | X |
| To know that he is far from slim | X |
| No just the other way about | G |
| He's proud of being short and stout | G |
Alan Alexander Milne
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