Hickory Dickory Dock Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE AAFFGGHHIJ AAHHKKBBEE| Tick Tack tick tack | A |
| This way that way forward back | A |
| Swings the pendulum to and fro | B |
| Always regular always slow | B |
| Grave and solemn on the wall | C |
| Hear it whisper hear it call | C |
| Little Ginx knows naught of Time | D |
| But has heard the mystic rhyme | D |
| Hickory dickory dock | E |
| The mouse ran up the clock | E |
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| Tick tack tick tack | A |
| White old face with figures black | A |
| So when dismal stormy days | F |
| Keep him from his out door plays | F |
| Most that he cares for is to sit | G |
| Watching always watching it | G |
| And when the hour strikes he thinks | H |
| A dear wise head has the little Ginx | H |
| The clock strikes one | I |
| The mice ran down | J |
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| Tick tack tick tack | A |
| This way that way forward back | A |
| Though so measured and precise | H |
| Ginx believes it full of mice | H |
| A mouse runs up at every tick | K |
| But when the stroke comes scampering quick | K |
| Mice run down again so they go | B |
| Up and down and to and fro | B |
| Hickory dickory dock | E |
| Full of mice is the clock | E |
Clara Doty Bates
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