Mr. And Mrs.spikky Sparrow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACCDDEEE A FFGGHHIIEEE A JJK LLMMEEE C NNDDFFOPEEE E QQRSTTDDEE C UVWWPODDEEE C DDX YZDDEEI | A |
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 |
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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 |
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'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 |
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IV | C |
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'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 |
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V | E |
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'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 ' | - |
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VI | C |
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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 |
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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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