Little Girls Are Best Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MCMCNDNDLittle girls are mighty nice | A |
Take 'em any way they come | B |
They are always worth their price | A |
Life without 'em would be glum | B |
Run earth's lists of treasures through | C |
Pile 'em high until they fall | D |
Gold an' costly jewels too | C |
Little girls are best of all | D |
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Nothing equals 'em on earth | E |
I'm an old man an' I know | F |
Any little girl is worth | E |
More than all the gold below | F |
Eyes o' blue or brown or gray | G |
Raven hair or golden curls | H |
There's no joy on earth to day | G |
Quite so fine as little girls | H |
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Pudgy nose or freckled face | I |
Fairy like or plain to see | J |
God has surely blessed the place | I |
Where a little girl may be | J |
They're the jewels of His crown | K |
Dropped to earth from heaven above | L |
Like wee angel souls sent down | K |
To remind us of His love | L |
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God has made some lovely things | M |
Roses red an' skies o' blue | C |
Trees an' babbling silver springs | M |
Gardens glistening with dew | C |
But take every gift to man | N |
Big an' little great an' small | D |
Judge it on its merits an' | N |
Little girls are best of all | D |
Edgar Albert Guest
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