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 G3I| Blue 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 |
| - | |
| And the great hoop bounds along the path | X |
| Leaping into the wind bright air | J |
| - | |
| 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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