The Mistletoe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBAACDEEEEAAA AAFFAAFFDDEE DDBBBBBBGGGGBBGGDDDD BBAA AAHHAADDAA DDDDAADDDDIIAA BBDDEEDDDDDD| Kiss me there now little Neddy | A |
| Do you see her staring steady | A |
| There again you had a chance of her | B |
| Didn't you catch the pretty glance of her | B |
| See her nest On any planet | A |
| Never was a sweeter than it | A |
| Never nest was such as this is | C |
| Tis the nest of all the kisses | D |
| With the mother kiss bird sitting | E |
| All through Christmas never flitting | E |
| Kisses kisses kisses hatching | E |
| Sweetest birdies for the catching | E |
| Oh the precious little brood | A |
| Always in a loving mood | A |
| There's one under Mamy's hood | A |
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| There that's one I caught this minute | A |
| Musical as any linnet | A |
| Where it is your big eyes question | F |
| With of doubt a wee suggestion | F |
| There it is upon mouth merry | A |
| There it is upon cheek cherry | A |
| There's another on chin chinnie | F |
| Now it's off and lights on Minnie | F |
| There's another on nose nosey | D |
| There's another on lip rosy | D |
| And the kissy bird is hatching | E |
| Hundreds more for only catching | E |
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| Why the mistletoe she chooses | D |
| And the Christmas tree refuses | D |
| There's a puzzle for your mother | B |
| I'll present you with another | B |
| Tell me why you question asker | B |
| Cruel heartless mother tasker | B |
| Why of all the trees before her | B |
| Gathered round or spreading o'er her | B |
| Jenny Wren should choose the apple | G |
| For her nursery and chapel | G |
| Or Jack Daw build in the steeple | G |
| High above the praying people | G |
| Tell me why the limping plover | B |
| O'er moist meadow likes to hover | B |
| Why the partridge with such trouble | G |
| Builds her nest where soon the stubble | G |
| Will betray her hop thumb cheepers | D |
| To the eyes of all the reapers | D |
| Tell me Charley tell me Janey | D |
| Answer all or answer any | D |
| And I'll tell you with much pleasure | B |
| Why this little bird of treasure | B |
| Nestles only in the mistletoe | A |
| Never never goes the thistle to | A |
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| Not an answer Tell without it | A |
| Yes all that I know about it | A |
| Mistletoe then cannot flourish | H |
| Cannot find the food to nourish | H |
| But on other plant when planted | A |
| And for kissing two are wanted | A |
| That is why the kissy birdie | D |
| Looks about for oak tree sturdy | D |
| And the plant that grows upon it | A |
| Like a wax flower on a bonnet | A |
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| But my blessed little mannie | D |
| All the birdies are not cannie | D |
| That the kissy birdie hatches | D |
| Some are worthless little patches | D |
| Which indeed if they don't smutch you | A |
| 'Tis they're dead before they touch you | A |
| While for kisses vain and greedy | D |
| Kisses flattering kisses needy | D |
| They are birds that never waddled | D |
| Out of eggs that only addled | D |
| Some there are leave spots behind them | I |
| On your cheek for years you'd find them | I |
| Little ones I do beseech you | A |
| Never let such birdies reach you | A |
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| It depends what net you venture | B |
| What the sort of bird will enter | B |
| I will tell you in a minute | D |
| What net takes kiss lark or linnet | D |
| Any bird indeed worth hatching | E |
| And just therefore worth the catching | E |
| The one net that never misses | D |
| Catching at least some true kisses | D |
| Is the heart that loving truly | D |
| Always loves the old love newly | D |
| But to spread out would undo it | D |
| Let the birdies fly into it | D |
George Macdonald
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