The Doll's Wooing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEEEF GHIIHJJJF IKLLKIIIF MNIINIIIF| The little French doll was a dear little doll | A |
| Tricked out in the sweetest of dresses | B |
| Her eyes were of hue | C |
| A most delicate blue | C |
| And dark as the night were her tresses | D |
| Her dear little mouth was fluted and red | E |
| And this little French doll was so very well bred | E |
| That whenever accosted her little mouth said | E |
| Mamma mamma | F |
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| The stockinet doll with one arm and one leg | G |
| Had once been a handsome young fellow | H |
| But now he appeared | I |
| Rather frowzy and bleared | I |
| In his torn regimentals of yellow | H |
| Yet his heart gave a curious thump as he lay | J |
| In the little toy cart near the window one day | J |
| And heard the sweet voice of that French dolly say | J |
| Mamma mamma | F |
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| He listened so long and he listened so hard | I |
| That anon he grew ever so tender | K |
| For it's everywhere known | L |
| That the feminine tone | L |
| Gets away with all masculine gender | K |
| He up and he wooed her with soldierly zest | I |
| But all she'd reply to the love he professed | I |
| Were these plaintive words which perhaps you have guessed | I |
| Mamma mamma | F |
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| Her mother a sweet little lady of five | M |
| Vouchsafed her parental protection | N |
| And although stockinet | I |
| Wasn't blue blooded yet | I |
| She really could make no objection | N |
| So soldier and dolly were wedded one day | I |
| And a moment ago as I journeyed that way | I |
| I'm sure that I heard a wee baby voice say | I |
| Mamma mamma | F |
Eugene Field
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