Hoops Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFDG HFIJKLM HNKOKFNP QDRDRRRSSSTTUUDDVVWC C XJ QDDFFYYCCZA2ZB2ZZC2C 2ZD2ZE2E2F2KKF2F2 G2U HH2I2J2K2ZL2M2N2FO2B Z QDYYDUP2F2F2Q2Q2R2R2 S2S2 QD2DTTT2H2KKKT2U2DU2 U2 V2ZW2W2FX2Y2 Z2F2Z2A3ZSB3C3H D3M2F2Z2UIZCBXE3F3B2 G3IBlue and pink sashes | A |
Criss cross shoes | B |
Minna and Stella run out into the garden | C |
To play at hoop | D |
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Up and down the garden paths they race | E |
In the yellow sunshine | F |
Each with a big round hoop | D |
White as a stripped willow wand | G |
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Round and round turn the hoops | H |
Their diamond whiteness cleaving the yellow sunshine | F |
The gravel crunches and squeaks beneath them | I |
And a large pebble springs them into the air | J |
To go whirling for a foot or two | K |
Before they touch the earth again | L |
In a series of little jumps | M |
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Spring Hoops | H |
Spit out a shower of blue and white brightness | N |
The little criss cross shoes twinkle behind you | K |
The pink and blue sashes flutter like flags | O |
The hoop sticks are ready to beat you | K |
Turn turn Hoops In the yellow sunshine | F |
Turn your stripped willow whiteness | N |
Along the smooth paths | P |
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Stella sings | Q |
Round and round rolls my hoop | D |
Scarcely touching the ground | R |
With a swoop | D |
And a bound | R |
Round and round | R |
With a bumpety crunching scattering sound | R |
Down the garden it flies | S |
In our eyes | S |
The sun lies | S |
See it spin | T |
Out and in | T |
Through the paths it goes whirling | U |
About the beds curling | U |
Sway now to the loop | D |
Faster faster my hoop | D |
Round you come | V |
Up you come | V |
Quick and straight as before | W |
Run run my hoop run | C |
Away from the sun | C |
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And the great hoop bounds along the path | X |
Leaping into the wind bright air | J |
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Minna sings | Q |
Turn hoop | D |
Burn hoop | D |
Twist and twine | F |
Hoop of mine | F |
Flash along | Y |
Leap along | Y |
Right at the sun | C |
Run hoop run | C |
Faster and faster | Z |
Whirl twirl | A2 |
Wheel like fire | Z |
And spin like glass | B2 |
Fire's no whiter | Z |
Glass is no brighter | Z |
Dance | C2 |
Prance | C2 |
Over and over | Z |
About and about | D2 |
With the top of you under | Z |
And the bottom at top | E2 |
But never a stop | E2 |
Turn about hoop to the tap of my stick | F2 |
I follow behind you | K |
To touch and remind you | K |
Burn and glitter so white and quick | F2 |
Round and round to the tap of a stick | F2 |
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The hoop flies along between the flower beds | G2 |
Swaying the flowers with the wind of its passing | U |
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Beside the foxglove border roll the hoops | H |
And the little pink and white bells shake and jingle | H2 |
Up and down their tall spires | I2 |
They roll under the snow ball bush | J2 |
And the ground behind them is strewn with white petals | K2 |
They swirl round a corner | Z |
And jar a bee out of a Canterbury bell | L2 |
They cast their shadows for an instant | M2 |
Over a bed of pansies | N2 |
Catch against the spurs of a columbine | F |
Jostle the quietness from a cluster of monk's hood | O2 |
Pat Pat behind them come the little criss cross shoes | B |
And the blue and pink sashes stream out in flappings of colour | Z |
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Stella sings | Q |
Hoop hoop | D |
Roll along | Y |
Faster bowl along | Y |
Hoop | D |
Slow to the turning | U |
Now go Go | P2 |
Quick | F2 |
Here's the stick | F2 |
Rat a tap tap it | Q2 |
Pat it flap it | Q2 |
Fly like a bird or a yellow backed bee | R2 |
See how soon you can reach that tree | R2 |
Here is a path that is perfectly straight | S2 |
Roll along hoop or we shall be late | S2 |
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Minna sings | Q |
Trip about slip about whip about | D2 |
Hoop | D |
Wheel like a top at its quickest spin | T |
Then dear hoop we shall surely win | T |
First to the greenhouse and then to the wall | T2 |
Circle and circle | H2 |
And let the wind push you | K |
Poke you | K |
Brush you | K |
And not let you fall | T2 |
Whirring you round like a wreath of mist | U2 |
Hoopety hoop | D |
Twist | U2 |
Twist | U2 |
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Tap Tap go the hoop sticks | V2 |
And the hoops bowl along under a grape arbour | Z |
For an instant their willow whiteness is green | W2 |
Pale white green | W2 |
Then they are out in the sunshine | F |
Leaving the half formed grape clusters | X2 |
A tremble under their big leaves | Y2 |
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I will beat you Minna cries Stella | Z2 |
Hitting her hoop smartly with her stick | F2 |
Stella Stella we are winning calls Minna | Z2 |
As her hoop curves round a bed of clove pinks | A3 |
A humming bird whizzes past Stella's ear | Z |
And two or three yellow and black butterflies | S |
Flutter startled out of a pillar rose | B3 |
Round and round race the little girls | C3 |
After their great white hoops | H |
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Suddenly Minna stops | D3 |
Her hoop wavers an instant | M2 |
But she catches it up on her stick | F2 |
Listen Stella | Z2 |
Both the little girls are listening | U |
And the scents of the garden rise up quietly about them | I |
It's the chaise It's Father | Z |
Perhaps he's brought us a book from Boston | C |
Twinkle twinkle the little criss cross shoes | B |
Up the garden path | X |
Blue pink an instant against the syringa hedge | E3 |
But the hoops white as stripped willow wands | F3 |
Lie in the grass | B2 |
And the grasshoppers jump back and forth | G3 |
Over them | I |
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