The Ogre Slam-the-door Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DE FCC GHGHCC IJIJCC| There is a certain castle that is beautiful and fair | A |
| And plants and birds and pretty things fill every room and hall | B |
| But alas for the unhappy folks who make their dwelling there | A |
| A dreadful ogre haunts the house and tries to kill them all | B |
| Some day I fear will find them dead and stretched out in their gore | C |
| The victims of this ogre grim this wicked Slam the door | C |
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| He's a very tiny ogre just about as tall as you | D |
| He never carries hidden arms or plays with guns and knives | E |
| And yet he almost splits the heads of people thro' and thro ' | - |
| And I think him very dangerous to comfort and to lives | F |
| And he often shakes the castle from the ceiling to the floor | C |
| This awful awful ogre known as little Slam the door | C |
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| He gets up bright and early and he's oh so wide awake | G |
| And wo to all the sleepy heads and invalids who doze | H |
| They dream the sky is caving in or that a vast earthquake | G |
| Has suddenly convulsed the world and ended their repose | H |
| As to and fro and up and down still noisier than before | C |
| They hear the hurrying flurrying feet of ogre Slam the door | C |
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| Though the Princess of the Castle has a headache and is ill | I |
| Though the Prince is in his study and wants quiet for an hour | J |
| This wicked little ogre won't be quiet or keep still | I |
| I almost think he sometimes knows he has them in his power | J |
| Alas alas for all the folks their sorrows I deplore | C |
| The folks shut in that castle with the ogre Slam the door | C |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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