The Story Of Augustus Who Would Not Have Any Soup Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDDD EEFFDDD GGHHDDD IIJJ| Augustus was a chubby lad | A |
| Fat ruddy cheeks Augustus had | A |
| And everybody saw with joy | B |
| The plump and hearty healthy boy | B |
| He ate and drank as he was told | C |
| And never let his soup get cold | C |
| But one day one cold winter's day | D |
| He screamed out Take the soup away | D |
| O take the nasty soup away | D |
| I won't have any soup today | D |
| - | |
| Next day now look the picture shows | E |
| How lank and lean Augustus grows | E |
| Yet though he feels so weak and ill | F |
| The naughty fellow cries out still | F |
| Not any soup for me I say | D |
| O take the nasty soup away | D |
| I won't have any soup today | D |
| - | |
| The third day comes Oh what a sin | G |
| To make himself so pale and thin | G |
| Yet when the soup is put on table | H |
| He screams as loud as he is able | H |
| Not any soup for me I say | D |
| O take the nasty soup away | D |
| I WON'T have any soup today | D |
| - | |
| Look at him now the fourth day's come | I |
| He scarcely weighs a sugar plum | I |
| He's like a little bit of thread | J |
| And on the fifth day he was dead | J |
Heinrich Hoffmann
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