The Dessert Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFFGGHHIIHHJ JFFCCKK| With the apples and the plums | A |
| Little Carolina comes | A |
| At the time of the dessert she | B |
| Comes and drops her last new curtsy | B |
| Graceful curtsy practised o'er | C |
| In the nursery before | D |
| What shall we compare her to | E |
| The dessert itself will do | E |
| Like preserves she's kept with care | F |
| Like blanched almonds she is fair | F |
| Soft as down on peach her hair | F |
| And so soft so smooth is each | G |
| Pretty cheek as that same peach | G |
| Yet more like in hue to cherries | H |
| Then her lips the sweet strawberries | H |
| Caroline herself shall try them | I |
| If they are not like when nigh them | I |
| Her bright eyes are black as sloes | H |
| But I think we've none of those | H |
| Common fruit here and her chin | J |
| From a round point does begin | J |
| Like the small end of a pear | F |
| Whiter drapery she does wear | F |
| Than the frost on cake and sweeter | C |
| Than the cake itself and neater | C |
| Though bedecked with emblems fine | K |
| Is our little Caroline | K |
Charles Lamb
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