Meddlesome Matty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDE FGFHII JKJKLM NONOPP J JQRR SFSFTT OUOFEE JDJDVV WXWXYY| One ugly trick has often spoil'd | A |
| The sweetest and the best | B |
| Matilda though a pleasant child | C |
| One ugly trick possess'd | B |
| Which like a cloud before the skies | D |
| Hid all her better qualities | E |
| - | |
| Sometimes she'd lift the tea pot lid | F |
| To peep at what was in it | G |
| Or tilt the kettle if you did | F |
| But turn your back a minute | H |
| In vain you told her not to touch | I |
| Her trick of meddling grew so much | I |
| - | |
| Her grandmamma went out one day | J |
| And by mistake she laid | K |
| Her spectacles and snuff box gay | J |
| Too near the little maid | K |
| Ah well thought she I'll try them on | L |
| As soon as grandmamma is gone | M |
| - | |
| Forthwith she placed upon her nose | N |
| The glasses large and wide | O |
| And looking round as I suppose | N |
| The snuff box too she spied | O |
| Oh what a pretty box is that | P |
| I'll open it said little Matt | P |
| - | |
| I know that grandmamma would say | J |
| 'Don't meddle with it dear ' | - |
| But then she's far enough away | J |
| And no one else is near | Q |
| Besides what can there be amiss | R |
| In opening such a box as this | R |
| - | |
| So thumb and finger went to work | S |
| To move the stubborn lid | F |
| And presently a mighty jerk | S |
| The mighty mischief did | F |
| For all at once ah woful case | T |
| The snuff came puffing in her face | T |
| - | |
| Poor eyes and nose and mouth beside | O |
| A dismal sight presented | U |
| In vain as bitterly she cried | O |
| Her folly she repented | F |
| In vain she ran about for ease | E |
| She could do nothing now but sneeze | E |
| - | |
| She dash'd the spectacles away | J |
| To wipe her tingling eyes | D |
| And as in twenty bits they lay | J |
| Her grandmamma she spies | D |
| Heyday and what's the matter now | V |
| Says grandmamma with lifted brow | V |
| - | |
| Matilda smarting with the pain | W |
| And tingling still and sore | X |
| Made many a promise to refrain | W |
| From meddling evermore | X |
| And 'tis a fact as I have heard | Y |
| She ever since has kept her word | Y |
Ann Taylor
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