The Mimic Harlequin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEAAFFGGHI JJK| 'I'll make believe and fancy something strange | A |
| I will suppose I have the power to change | A |
| And make all things unlike to what they were | B |
| To jump through windows and fly through the air | C |
| And quite confound all places and all times | D |
| Like harlequins we see in pantomimes | D |
| These thread papers my wooden sword must be | E |
| Nothing more like one I at present see | E |
| And now all round this drawing room I'll range | A |
| And every thing I look at I will change | A |
| Here's Mopsa our old cat shall be a bird | F |
| To a Poll parrot she is now transferred | F |
| Here's mamma's work bag now I will engage | G |
| To whisk this little bag into a cage | G |
| And now my pretty parrot get you in it | H |
| Another change I'll show you in a minute ' | I |
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| 'O fie you naughty child what have you done | J |
| There never was so mischievous a son | J |
| You've put the cat among my work and torn | K |
| A fine laced cap that I but once have worn ' | - |
Charles Lamb
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