How The Babes In The Wood Showed They Couldn't Be Beaten Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDE FGHGIJ KLMLNN OPIPQQ RSTSUU VWXWYY ZA2B2A2C2C2 D2E2F2E2B2B2 E2WG2WH2H2 H2H2I2H2H2H2 J2J2UU| A man of kind and noble mind | A |
| Was H Gustavus Hyde | B |
| 'Twould be amiss to add to this | C |
| At present for he died | B |
| In full possession of his senses | D |
| The day before my tale commences | E |
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| One half his gold his four year old | F |
| Son Paul was known to win | G |
| And Beatrix whose age was six | H |
| For all the rest came in | G |
| Perceiving which their Uncle Ben did | I |
| A thing that people said was splendid | J |
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| For by the hand he took them and | K |
| Remarked in accents smooth | L |
| One thing I ask Be mine the task | M |
| These stricken babes to soothe | L |
| My country home is really charming | N |
| I'll teach them all the joys of farming | N |
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| One halcyon week they fished his creek | O |
| And watched him do the chores | P |
| In haylofts hid and shouting slid | I |
| Down sloping cellar doors | P |
| Because this life to bliss was equal | Q |
| The more distressing is the sequel | Q |
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| Concealing guile beneath a smile | R |
| He took them to a wood | S |
| And with severe and most austere | T |
| Injunctions to be good | S |
| He left them seated on a gateway | U |
| And took his own departure straightway | U |
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| Though much afraid the children stayed | V |
| From ten till nearly eight | W |
| At times they wept at times they slept | X |
| But never left the gate | W |
| Until the swift suspicion crossed them | Y |
| That Uncle Benjamin had lost them | Y |
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| Then quite unnerved young Paul observed | Z |
| It's like a dreadful dream | A2 |
| And Uncle Ben has fallen ten | B2 |
| Per cent in my esteem | A2 |
| Not only did he first usurp us | C2 |
| But now he's left us here on purpose | C2 |
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| For countless years their childish fears | D2 |
| Have made the reader pale | E2 |
| For countless years the public's tears | F2 |
| Have started at the tale | E2 |
| For countless years much detestation | B2 |
| Has been expressed for their relation | B2 |
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| So draw a veil across the dale | E2 |
| Where stood that ghastly gate | W |
| No need to tell You know full well | G2 |
| What was their touching fate | W |
| And how with leaves each little dead breast | H2 |
| Was covered by a Robin Redbreast | H2 |
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| But when they found them on the ground | H2 |
| Although their life had ceased | H2 |
| Quite near to Paul there lay a small | I2 |
| White paper neatly creased | H2 |
| Because of lack of any merit | H2 |
| B Hyde it ran we disinherit | H2 |
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| The Moral If you deeply long | J2 |
| To punish one who's done you wrong | J2 |
| Though in your lifetime fail you may | U |
| Where there's a will there is a way | U |
Guy Wetmore Carryl
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