Mr. And Mrs. Spikky Sparrow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBAACCDDEEE A FFGGHHIIEEE A JJK LLMMEEE C NNDDFFOPEEE E QQRSTTDDEE C UVWWPODDEEE C DDX YZDDEE| I | A |
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| On a little piece of wood | B |
| Mr Spikky Sparrow stood | B |
| Mrs Sparrow sate close by | A |
| A making of an insect pie | A |
| For her little children five | C |
| In the nest and all alive | C |
| Singing with a cheerful smile | D |
| To amuse them all the while | D |
| Twikky wikky wikky wee | E |
| Wikky bikky twikky tee | E |
| Spikky bikky bee | E |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| Mrs Spikky Sparrow said | F |
| 'Spikky Darling in my head | F |
| 'Many thoughts of trouble come | G |
| 'Like to flies upon a plum | G |
| 'All last night among the trees | H |
| 'I heard you cough I heard you sneeze | H |
| 'And thought I it's come to that | I |
| 'Because he does not wear a hat | I |
| 'Chippy wippy sikky tee | E |
| 'Bikky wikky tikky mee | E |
| 'Spikky chippy wee | E |
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| III | A |
| - | |
| 'Not that you are growing old | J |
| 'But the nights are growing cold | J |
| 'No one stays out all night long | K |
| 'Without a hat I'm sure it's wrong ' | - |
| Mr Spikky said 'How kind | L |
| 'Dear you are to speak your mind | L |
| 'All your life I wish you luck | M |
| 'You are you are a lovely duck | M |
| 'Witchy witchy witchy wee | E |
| 'Twitchy witchy witchy bee | E |
| Tikky tikky tee | E |
| - | |
| IV | C |
| - | |
| 'I was also sad and thinking | N |
| 'When one day I saw you winking | N |
| 'And I heard you sniffle snuffle | D |
| 'And I saw your feathers ruffle | D |
| 'To myself I sadly said | F |
| 'She's neuralgia in her head | F |
| 'That dear head has nothing on it | O |
| 'Ought she not to wear a bonnet | P |
| 'Witchy kitchy kitchy wee | E |
| 'Spikky wikky mikky bee | E |
| 'Chippy wippy chee | E |
| - | |
| V | E |
| - | |
| 'Let us both fly up to town | Q |
| 'There I'll buy you such a gown | Q |
| 'Which completely in the fashion | R |
| 'You shall tie a sky blue sash on | S |
| 'And a pair of slippers neat | T |
| 'To fit your darling little feet | T |
| 'So that you will look and feel | D |
| 'Quite galloobious and genteel | D |
| 'Jikky wikky bikky see | E |
| 'Chicky bikky wikky bee | E |
| 'Twikky witchy wee ' | - |
| - | |
| VI | C |
| - | |
| So they both to London went | U |
| Alighting on the Monument | V |
| Whence they flew down swiftly pop | W |
| Into Moses' wholesale shop | W |
| There they bought a hat and bonnet | P |
| And a gown with spots upon it | O |
| A satin sash of Cloxam blue | D |
| And a pair of slippers too | D |
| Zikky wikky mikky bee | E |
| Witchy witchy mitchy kee | E |
| Sikky tikky wee | E |
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| VII | C |
| - | |
| Then when so completely drest | D |
| Back they flew and reached their nest | D |
| Their children cried 'O Ma and Pa | X |
| 'How truly beautiful you are ' | - |
| Said they 'We trust that cold or pain | Y |
| 'We shall never feel again | Z |
| 'While perched on tree or house or steeple | D |
| 'We now shall look like other people | D |
| 'Witchy witchy witchy wee | E |
| 'Twikky mikky bikky bee | E |
| Zikky sikky tee ' | - |
Edward Lear
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