The Quangle Wangle's Hat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDDEEA FBFBBBGGA BBBBCCHHI BJBJKKCCB LMLMNNNNI NBIBOOBBKI | A |
On the top of the Crumpetty Tree | B |
The Quangle Wangle sat | C |
But his face you could not see | B |
On account of his Beaver Hat | C |
For his Hat was a hundred and two feet wide | D |
With ribbons and bibbons on every side | D |
And bells and buttons and loops and lace | E |
So that nobody every could see the face | E |
Of the Quangle Wangle Quee II | A |
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The Quangle Wangle said | F |
To himself on the Crumpetty Tree | B |
Jam and jelly and bread | F |
Are the best of food for me | B |
But the longer I live on this Crumpetty Tree | B |
The plainer than ever it seems to me | B |
That very few people come this way | G |
And that life on the whole is far from gay | G |
Said the Quangle Wangle Quee III | A |
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But there came to the Crumpetty Tree | B |
Mr and Mrs Canary | B |
And they said Did every you see | B |
Any spot so charmingly airy | B |
May we build a nest on your lovely Hat | C |
Mr Quangle Wangle grant us that | C |
O please let us come and build a nest | H |
Of whatever material suits you best | H |
Mr Quangle Wangle Quee IV | I |
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And besides to the Crumpetty Tree | B |
Came the Stork the Duck and the Owl | J |
The Snail and the Bumble Bee | B |
The Frog and the Fimble Fowl | J |
The Fimble Fowl with a corkscrew leg | K |
And all of them said We humbly beg | K |
We may build out homes on your lovely Hat | C |
Mr Quangle Wangle grant us that | C |
Mr Quangle Wangle Quee V | B |
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And the Golden Grouse came there | L |
And the Pobble who has no toes | M |
And the small Olympian bear | L |
And the Dong with a luminous nose | M |
And the Blue Baboon who played the Flute | N |
And the Orient Calf from the Land of Tute | N |
And the Attery Squash and the Bisky Bat | N |
All came and built on the lovely Hat | N |
Of the Quangle Wangle Quee VI | I |
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And the Quangle Wangle said | N |
To himself on the Crumpetty Tree | B |
When all these creatures move | I |
What a wonderful noise there'll be | B |
And at night by the light of the Mulberry moon | O |
They danced to the Flute of the Blue Baboon | O |
On the broad green leaves of the Crumpetty Tree | B |
And all were as happy as happy could be | B |
With the Quangle Wangle Quee | K |
Edward Lear
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