The Butterfly Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC ADE AED AFFGAAHI AIJKKKL AMMN AOONPPQRRQSSTUUT ARRVWWX| SISTER | A |
| Do my dearest brother John | B |
| Let that butterfly alone | C |
| - | |
| BROTHER | A |
| What harm now do I do | D |
| You're always making such a noise | E |
| - | |
| SISTER | A |
| O fie John none but naughty boys | E |
| Say such rude words as you | D |
| - | |
| BROTHER | A |
| Because you're always speaking sharp | F |
| On the same thing you always harp | F |
| A bird one may not catch | G |
| Nor find a nest nor angle neither | A |
| Nor from the peacock pluck a feather | A |
| But you are on the watch | H |
| To moralize and lecture still | I |
| - | |
| SISTER | A |
| And ever lecture John I will | I |
| When such sad things I hear | J |
| But talk not now of what is past | K |
| The moments fly away too fast | K |
| Though endlessly they seem to last | K |
| To that poor soul in fear | L |
| - | |
| BROTHER | A |
| Well soon I say I'll let it loose | M |
| But sister you talk like a goose | M |
| There's no soul in a fly | N |
| - | |
| SISTER | A |
| It has a form and fibres fine | O |
| Were tempered by the hand divine | O |
| Who dwells beyond the sky | N |
| Look brother you have hurt its wing | P |
| And plainly by its fluttering | P |
| You see it's in distress | Q |
| Gay painted coxcomb spangled beau | R |
| A butterfly is called you know | R |
| That's always in full dress | Q |
| The finest gentleman of all | S |
| Insects he is he gave a ball | S |
| You know the poet wrote | T |
| Let's fancy this the very same | U |
| And then you'll own you've been to blame | U |
| To spoil his silken coat | T |
| - | |
| BROTHER | A |
| Your dancing spangled powdered beau | R |
| Look through the air I've let him go | R |
| And now we're friends again | V |
| As sure as he is in the air | W |
| From this time Ann I will take care | W |
| And try to be humane | X |
Charles Lamb
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