The Story Of A Dirty Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DD EEFFGGHH IIJJ KKAAAALL MNOO| The little girls whom now you'll see | A |
| Were sisters in one family | A |
| And both enjoyed an equal share | B |
| Of a kind mother's anxious care | B |
| This one in neatness took a pride | C |
| And oft the brush and comb applied | C |
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| Oft washed her face and oft her hands | D |
| See now thus occupied she stands | D |
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| The other oh I grieve to say | E |
| How she would scream and run away | E |
| Soon as she saw her mother stand | F |
| With water by and sponge in hand | F |
| She'd kick and stamp and jump about | G |
| And set up such an awful shout | G |
| That one who did not know the child | H |
| Would say she must be going wild | H |
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| In consequence it came to pass | I |
| While one was quite a pretty lass | I |
| And many a fond admirer gained | J |
| And many a little gift obtained | J |
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| The other viewed with general scorn | K |
| Was left forsaken and forlorn | K |
| For no one can endure to see | A |
| A child all dirt and misery | A |
| Behold how needful 'tis that we | A |
| Should clean in dress and person be | A |
| Or else believe me 'tis in vain | L |
| We hope affection to obtain | L |
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| A sloven will be always viewed | M |
| With pity by the wise and good | N |
| While ev'n the vicious and the base | O |
| Behold with scorn a dirty face | O |
Heinrich Hoffmann
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