The Daisies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDAAEFFEBBE AGHGAHIJJGHKLKLDDGGA AAAAIn the great green park with the wooden palings | A |
The wooden palings so hard to climb | B |
There are fern and foxglove primrose and violet | C |
And green things growing all the time | B |
And out in the open the daisies grow | D |
Pretty and proud in their proper places | A |
Millions of white frilled daisy faces | A |
Millions and millions not one or two | E |
And they call to the bluebells down in the wood | F |
Are you out are you in We have been so good | F |
All the school time winter through | E |
But now it's playtime | B |
The gay time the May time | B |
We are out and at play Where are you | E |
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In the gritty garden inside the railings | A |
The spiky railings all painted green | G |
There are neat little beds of geraniums and fuchsia | H |
With never a happy weed between | G |
There's a neat little grass plot bald in places | A |
And very dusty to touch | H |
A respectable man comes once a week | I |
To keep the garden weeded and swept | J |
To keep it as we don't want it kept | J |
He cuts the grass with his mowing machine | G |
And we think he cuts it too much | H |
But even on the lawn all dry and gritty | K |
The daisies play about | L |
They are so brave as well as so pretty | K |
You cannot keep them out | L |
I love them I want to let them grow | D |
But that respectable man says no | D |
He cuts off their heads with his mowing machine | G |
Like the French Revolution guillotine | G |
He sweeps up the poor little pretty faces | A |
The dear little white frilled daisy faces | A |
Says things must be kept in their proper places | A |
He has no frill round his ugly face | A |
I wish I could find his proper place | A |
E. (edith) Nesbit
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