Wanted--a Little Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CC D EEFF GGHH DDHH DDIIJ| Where have they gone to the little girls | A |
| With natural manners and natural curls | A |
| Who love their dollies and like their toys | B |
| And talk of something besides the boys | B |
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| Little old women in plenty I find | C |
| Mature in manners and old of mind | C |
| Little old flirts who talk of their 'beaux ' | - |
| And vie with each other in stylish clothes | D |
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| Little old belles who at nine and ten | E |
| Are sick of pleasure and tired of men | E |
| Weary of travel of balls of fun | F |
| And find no new thing under the sun | F |
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| Once in the beautiful long ago | G |
| Some dear little children I used to know | G |
| Girls who were merry as lambs at play | H |
| And laughed and rollicked the livelong day | H |
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| They thought not at all of the 'style' of their clothes | D |
| They never imagined that boys were 'beaux' | D |
| 'Other girls' brothers' and 'mates' were they | H |
| Splendid fellows to help them play | H |
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| Where have they gone to If you see | D |
| One of them anywhere send her to me | D |
| I would give a medal of purest gold | I |
| To one of those dear little girls of old | I |
| With an innocent heart and an open smile | J |
| Who knows not the meaning of 'flirt' or 'style ' | - |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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