How Little Red Riding Hood Came To Be Eaten Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDDEFFEGG HHIJJIKKLFFLMN OOPFFPQQRSSRTU VVWJJWIIXYYXZZ A2A2B2CCB2FFC2DDC2II D2D2E2CCE2F2G2H2I2I2 H2I2I2 CB2CB2CB2

Most worthy of praiseA
Were the virtuous waysA
Of Little Red Riding Hood's MaB
And no one was everC
More cautious and cleverC
Than Little Red Riding Hood's PaB
They never misledD
For they meant what they saidD
And would frequently say what they meantE
And the way she should goF
They were careful to showF
And the way that they showed her she wentE
For obedience she was effusively thankedG
And for anything else she was carefully spankedG
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It thus isn't strangeH
That Red Riding Hood's rangeH
Of virtues so steadily grewI
That soon she won prizesJ
Of different sizesJ
And golden encomiums tooI
As a general ruleK
She was head of her schoolK
And at six was so notably smartL
That they gave her a chequeF
For reciting The WreckF
Of the Hesperus wholly by heartL
And you all will applaud her the more I am sureM
When I add that this money she gave to the poorN
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At eleven this lassO
Had a Sunday school classO
At twelve wrote a volume of verseP
At thirteen was yearningF
For glory and learningF
To be a professional nurseP
To a glorious heightQ
The young paragon mightQ
Have grown if not nipped in the budR
But the following yearS
Struck her smiling careerS
With a dull and a sickening thudR
I have shed a great tear at the thought of her painT
And must copy my manuscript over againU
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Not dreaming of harmV
One day on her armV
A basket she hung It was filledW
With jellies and icesJ
And gruel and spicesJ
And chicken legs carefully grilledW
And a savory stewI
And a novel or twoI
She'd persuaded a neighbor to loanX
And a hot water canY
And a Japanese fanY
And a bottle of eau de cologneX
And the rest of the things that your family fillZ
Your room with whenever you chance to be illZ
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She expected to findA2
Her decrepit but kindA2
Old Grandmother waiting her callB2
But the visage that met herC
Completely upset herC
It wasn't familiar at allB2
With a whitening cheekF
She started to speakF
But her peril she instantly sawC2
Her Grandma had fledD
And she'd tackled insteadD
Four merciless Paws and a MawC2
When the neighbors came running the wolf to subdueI
He was licking his chops and Red Riding Hood's tooI
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At this terrible taleD2
Some readers will paleD2
And others with horror grow dumbE2
And yet it was betterC
I fear he should get herC
Just think what she might have becomeE2
For an infant so keenF2
Might in future have beenG2
A woman of awful renownH2
Who carried on fightsI2
For her feminine rightsI2
As the Mare of an Arkansas townH2
She might have continued the crime of her 'teensI2
And come to write verse for the Big MagazinesI2
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The Moral There's nothing much glummerC
Than children whose talents appallB2
One much prefers those who are dumberC
But as for the paragons smallB2
If a swallow cannot make a summerC
It can bring on a summary fallB2

Guy Wetmore Carryl



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