The Giddy Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDDEEFF GHGHIIJJKKFF LMLMNNOOHHPFF| A giddy young maiden with nimble feet | A |
| Heigh ho alack and alas | B |
| Declared she would far rather dance than eat | A |
| And the truth of it came to pass | B |
| For she danced all day and she danced all night | C |
| She danced till the green earth faded white | C |
| She danced ten partners out of breath | D |
| She danced the eleventh one quite to death | D |
| And still she redowaed up and down | E |
| The giddiest girl in town | E |
| With one two three one two three one two three kick | F |
| Chass e back chass e back whirl around quick | F |
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| The name of this damsel ended with E | G |
| Heigh ho alack and a day | H |
| And she was as fair as a maiden need be | G |
| Till she danced her beauty away | H |
| She danced her big toes out of joint | I |
| She danced her other toes all to a point | I |
| She danced out slipper and boot and shoe | J |
| She danced till the bones of her feet came through | J |
| And still she redowaed waltzed and whirled | K |
| The giddiest girl in the world | K |
| With one two three one two three one two three kick | F |
| Chass e back chass e back whirl around quick | F |
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| Now the end of my story is sad to relate | L |
| Heigh ho and away we go | M |
| For this beautiful maiden's final fate | L |
| Is shrouded in gloom and woe | M |
| She danced herself into a patent top | N |
| She whirled and whirled till she could not stop | N |
| She danced and bounded and sprang so far | O |
| That she stuck at last on a pointed star | O |
| And there she must dance till the Judgment Day | H |
| And after it too for she danced away | H |
| Her soul you see so she has no place anywhere out of space | P |
| With her one two three one two three one two three kick | F |
| Chass e back chass e back whirl about quick | F |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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