The Child Who Would Not Be Washed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCAA DDEE FFGG HHDD IIJJ KKLL| Don't wash me pray mamma today | A |
| I once heard little Jennie say | A |
| For oh so very hard you rub | B |
| I never want to see my tub | B |
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| O very well her mother said | C |
| I'll put you back again to bed | C |
| And you must in your night gown stay | A |
| Nor come down stairs at all to day | A |
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| And then I heard Miss Jennie cry | D |
| And beg mamma to let her try | D |
| And say as she had done before | E |
| That she'd so naughty be no more | E |
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| Her mother turned and left her there | F |
| She heard her step upon the stair | F |
| But in her chamber all day long | G |
| She staid alone for doing wrong | G |
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| She heard her sister jump and run | H |
| And longed to join her in her fun | H |
| Her brother made a snow man high | D |
| But she upon her bed must lie | D |
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| She heard the merry sleigh bells ring | I |
| And to the door come clattering | I |
| But Jennie could not go to ride | J |
| In night clothes by her father's side | J |
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| And glad was she as you may guess | K |
| The next day to put on her dress | K |
| She ran and told her mother then | L |
| She never would do so again | L |
H. P. Nichols
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