The Ugly Princess Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHCH IJKJ E| My parents bow and lead them forth | A |
| For all the crowd to see | B |
| Ah well the people might not care | C |
| To cheer a dwarf like me | B |
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| They little know how I could love | D |
| How I could plan and toil | E |
| To swell those drudges' scanty gains | F |
| Their mites of rye and oil | E |
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| They little know what dreams have been | G |
| My playmates night and day | H |
| Of equal kindness helpful care | C |
| A mother's perfect sway | H |
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| Now earth to earth in convent walls | I |
| To earth in churchyard sod | J |
| I was not good enough for man | K |
| And so am given to God | J |
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| Bertrich in the Eifel | E |
Charles Kingsley
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