Choosing A Name Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBAA ACBBDDCAEEFG HIJJIIAAAA| I have got a new born sister | A |
| I was nigh the first that kissed her | A |
| When the nursing woman brought her | A |
| To papa his infant daughter | A |
| How papa's dear eyes did glisten | B |
| She will shortly be to christen | B |
| And papa has made the offer | A |
| I shall have the naming of her | A |
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| Now I wonder what would please her | A |
| Charlotte Julia or Louisa | C |
| Ann and Mary they're too common | B |
| Joan's too formal for a woman | B |
| Jane's a prettier name beside | D |
| But we had a Jane that died | D |
| They would say if 'twas Rebecca | C |
| That she was a little Quaker | A |
| Edith's pretty but that looks | E |
| Better in old English books | E |
| Ellen's left off long ago | F |
| Blanche is out of fashion now | G |
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| None that I have named as yet | H |
| Are so good as Margaret | I |
| Emily is neat and fine | J |
| What do you think of Caroline | J |
| How I'm puzzled and perplext | I |
| What to choose or think of next | I |
| I am in a little fever | A |
| Lest the name that I shall give her | A |
| Should disgrace her or defame her | A |
| I will leave papa to name her | A |
Charles Lamb
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