The Goose-girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC DEFE GHG IJIJFKD| I WANDERED lonely by the sea | A |
| As is my daily use | B |
| I saw her drive across the lea | A |
| The gander and the goose | B |
| The gander and the gray gray goose | B |
| She drove them all together | C |
| Her cheeks were rose her gold hair loose | B |
| All in the wild gray weather | C |
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| 'O dainty maid who drive the geese | D |
| Across the common wide | E |
| Turn turn your pretty back on these | F |
| And come and be my bride | E |
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| I am a poet from the town | G |
| And 'mid the ladies there | H |
| There is not one would wear a crown | G |
| With half your charming air ' | - |
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| She laughed she shook her pretty head | I |
| 'I want no poet's hand | J |
| Go read your fairy books ' she said | I |
| 'For this is fairy land | J |
| My Prince comes riding o'er the leas | F |
| He fitly comes to woo | K |
| For I'm a Princess and my geese | D |
| Were poets once like you ' | - |
Edith Nesbit
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