The Cry-baby Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC ADAE FGFGAHAH AIAIAGAG| Oh why are you always so bitterly crying | A |
| You surely will make yourself blind | B |
| What reason on earth for such sobbing and sighing | A |
| I pray can you possibly find | B |
| There is no real sorrow there's nothing distressing | A |
| To make you thus grieve and lament | C |
| Ah no you are just at this moment possessing | A |
| Whatever should make you content | C |
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| Now do my dear daughter give over this weeping | A |
| Such was a kind mother's advice | D |
| But all was in vain for you see she's still keeping | A |
| Her handkerchief up to her eyes | E |
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| But now she removes it and oh she discloses | F |
| A countenance full of dismay | G |
| For she certainly feels or at least she supposes | F |
| Her eyesight is going away | G |
| She is not mistaken her sight is departing | A |
| She knows it and sorrows the more | H |
| Then rubs her sore eyes to relieve them from smarting | A |
| And makes them still worse than before | H |
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| And now the poor creature is cautiously crawling | A |
| And feeling her way all around | I |
| And now from their sockets her eyeballs are falling | A |
| See there they are down on the ground | I |
| My children from such an example take warning | A |
| And happily live while you may | G |
| And say to yourselves when you rise in the morning | A |
| I'll try to be cheerful today | G |
Heinrich Hoffmann
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About The Cry-baby
The Cry-baby is a poem by Heinrich Hoffmann. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.