The Reproof Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGGDHIIJJKL MMMMNN| Mamma heard me with scorn and pride | A |
| A wretched beggar boy deride | A |
| 'Do you not know ' said I 'how mean | B |
| It is to be thus begging seen | B |
| If for a week I were not fed | C |
| I'm sure I would not beg my bread ' | D |
| And then away she saw me stalk | E |
| With a most self important walk | E |
| But meeting her upon the stairs | F |
| All these my consequential airs | F |
| Were changed to an entreating look | G |
| 'Give me ' said I 'the pocket book | G |
| Mamma you promised I should have ' | D |
| The pocket book to me she gave | H |
| After reproof and counsel sage | I |
| She bade me write in the first page | I |
| This naughty action all in rhyme | J |
| No food to have until the time | J |
| In writing fair and neatly worded | K |
| The unfeeling fact I had recorded | L |
| Slow I compose and slow I write | M |
| And now I feel keen hunger bite | M |
| My mother's pardon I entreat | M |
| And beg she'll give me food to eat | M |
| Dry bread would be received with joy | N |
| By her repentant beggar boy | N |
Charles Lamb
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