Frances Keeps Her Promise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDE FGFG HIHI JKJK KKK LDLD MNM KOK P PQ MGMG FC RSRS| 'MY Fanny I have news to tell | A |
| Your diligence quite pleases me | B |
| You've work'd so neatly read so well | A |
| With cousin Jane you may take tea | B |
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| 'But pray remember this my love | C |
| Although to stay you should incline | D |
| And none but you should think to move | E |
| I wish you to return at nine ' | - |
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| With many thanks the attentive child | F |
| Assured mamma she would obey | G |
| Whom tenderly she kiss'd and smiled | F |
| And with the maid then went away | G |
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| Arrived the little girl was shown | H |
| To where she met the merry band | I |
| And when her coming was made known | H |
| All greet her with a welcome bland | I |
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| They dance they play and sweetly sing | J |
| In every sport each one partakes | K |
| And now the servants sweetmeats bring | J |
| With wine and jellies fruit and cakes | K |
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| Then comes papa who says 'My dears | K |
| The magic lantern if you'd see | K |
| And that which on the wall appears | K |
| Leave off your play and follow me ' | - |
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| While Frances too enjoy'd the sight | L |
| Where moving figures all combine | D |
| To raise her wonder and delight | L |
| She hears alas the clock strike nine | D |
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| 'Miss Fanny's maid for her is come ' | - |
| 'Oh dear how soon ' the children cry | M |
| They press but Fanny will go home | N |
| And bids her little friends good bye | M |
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| 'See dear mamma I have not stay'd ' | - |
| 'Good girl indeed ' mamma replies | K |
| 'I knew you'd do as you had said | O |
| And now you'll find you've won a prize | K |
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| 'So come my love and see the man | P |
| Whom I desired at nine to call ' | - |
| Down stairs young Frances quickly ran | P |
| And found him waiting in the hall | Q |
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| 'Here Miss are pretty birds to buy | M |
| A parrot or macaw so gay | G |
| A speckled dove with scarlet eye | M |
| A linnet or a chattering jay | G |
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| 'Would you a Java sparrow love ' | - |
| 'No no I thank you ' said the child | F |
| 'I'll have a beauteous cooing dove | C |
| So harmless innocent and mild ' | - |
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| 'Your choice my Fanny I commend | R |
| Few birds can with the dove compare | S |
| But lest it pine without a friend | R |
| I give you leave to choose a pair | S |
Ann Taylor
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