The Goose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEF GBGB HIHI JKKK KBKB LMLM BK KBKB BBBB DGF NKOK KBPB QBQ| I knew an old wife lean and poor | A |
| Her rags scarce held together | B |
| There strode a stranger to the door | C |
| And it was windy weather | B |
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| He held a goose upon his arm | D |
| He utter'd rhyme and reason | E |
| 'Here take the goose and keep you warm | F |
| It is a stormy season ' | - |
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| She caught the white goose by the leg | G |
| A goose 'twas no great matter | B |
| The goose let fall a golden egg | G |
| With cackle and with clatter | B |
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| She dropt the goose and caught the pelf | H |
| And ran to tell her neighbors | I |
| And bless'd herself and cursed herself | H |
| And rested from her labors | I |
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| And feeding high and living soft | J |
| Grew plump and able bodied | K |
| Until the grave churchwarden doff'd | K |
| The parson smirk'd and nodded | K |
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| So sitting served by man and maid | K |
| She felt her heart grow prouder | B |
| But ah the more the white goose laid | K |
| It clack'd and cackled louder | B |
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| It clutter'd here it chuckled there | L |
| It stirr'd the old wife's mettle | M |
| She shifted in her elbow chair | L |
| And hurl'd the pan and kettle | M |
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| 'A quinsy choke thy cursed note ' | - |
| Then wax'd her anger stronger | B |
| 'Go take the goose and wring her throat | K |
| I will not hear it longer ' | - |
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| Then yelp'd the cur and yawl'd the cat | K |
| Ran Gaffer stumbled Gammer | B |
| The goose flew this way and flew that | K |
| And fill'd the house with clamor | B |
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| As head and heels upon the floor | B |
| They flounder'd all together | B |
| There strode a stranger to the door | B |
| And it was windy weather | B |
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| He took the goose upon his arm | D |
| He utter'd words of scorning | G |
| 'So keep you cold or keep you warm | F |
| It is a stormy morning ' | - |
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| The wild wind rang from park and plain | N |
| And round the attics rumbled | K |
| Till all the tables danced again | O |
| And half the chimneys tumbled | K |
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| The glass blew in the fire blew out | K |
| The blast was hard and harder | B |
| Her cap blew off her gown blew up | P |
| And a whirlwind clear'd the larder | B |
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| And while on all sides breaking loose | Q |
| Her household fled the danger | B |
| Quoth she 'The devil take the goose | Q |
| And God forget the stranger ' | - |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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