He Lived At Dingle Bank Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD AEFEGG AHIHJJ AKLKJJ| He lived at Dingle Bank he did | A |
| He lived at Dingle Bank | B |
| And in his garden was one Quail | C |
| Four tulips and a Tank | B |
| And from his window he could see | D |
| The otion and the River Dee | D |
| - | |
| His house stood on a Cliff it did | A |
| Its aspic it was cool | E |
| And many thousand little boys | F |
| Resorted to his school | E |
| Where if of progress they could boast | G |
| He gave them heaps of buttered toast | G |
| - | |
| But he grew rabid wroth he did | A |
| If they neglected books | H |
| And dragged them to adjacent Cliffs | I |
| With beastly Button Hooks | H |
| And there with fatuous glee he threw | J |
| Them down into the ocean blue | J |
| - | |
| And in the sea they sway they did | A |
| All playfully about | K |
| And some eventually became | L |
| Sponges or speckled trout | K |
| But Liverpool doth all bewail | J |
| Their Fate likewise his Garden Quail | J |
Edward Lear
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation