Phoebe Ann, The Proud Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CCDDEEFF GGHHIIJJ KLDD| This Phoebe Ann was a very proud girl | A |
| Her nose had always an upward curl | A |
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| She thought herself better than all others beside | B |
| And beat even the peacock himself in pride | B |
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| She thought the earth was so dirty and brown | C |
| That never by chance would she look down | C |
| And she held up her head in the air so high | D |
| That her neck began stretching by and by | D |
| It stretched and it stretched and it grew so long | E |
| That her parents thought something must be wrong | E |
| It stretched and stretched and they soon began | F |
| To look up with fear at their Phoebe Ann | F |
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| They prayed her to stop her upward gaze | G |
| But Phoebe kept on in her old proud ways | G |
| Until her neck had grown so long and spare | H |
| That her head was more than her neck could bear | H |
| And it bent to the ground like a willow tree | I |
| And brought down the head of this proud Phoebe | I |
| Until whenever she went out a walk to take | J |
| The boys would shout Here comes a snake | J |
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| Her head got to be so heavy to drag on | K |
| That she had to put it on a little wagon | L |
| So don't my friends hold your head too high | D |
| Or your neck may stretch too by and by | D |
Heinrich Hoffmann
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Chiamaka: Well to me,proud is bad because it can bring bad luck