Which Is The Favourite? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDDAAEEFFAAGGHHI JKKLMGG| Brothers and sisters I have many | A |
| Though I know there is not any | A |
| Of them but I love yet I | B |
| Will just name them all and try | B |
| If there be one a little more | C |
| Loved by me than all the rest | D |
| Yes I do think that I love best | D |
| My brother Henry because he | A |
| Has always been most fond of me | A |
| Yet to be sure there's Isabel | E |
| I think I love her quite as well | E |
| And I assure you little Ann | F |
| No brother nor no sister can | F |
| Be more dear to me than she | A |
| Only I must say Emily | A |
| Being the eldest it's right her | G |
| To all the rest I should prefer | G |
| Yet after all I've said suppose | H |
| My greatest favourite should be Rose | H |
| No John and Paul are both more dear | I |
| To me than Rose that's always here | J |
| While they are half the year at school | K |
| And yet that neither is no rule | K |
| I've named them all there's only seven | L |
| I find my love to all so even | M |
| To every sister every brother | G |
| I love not one more than another | G |
Charles Lamb
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