The Story Of Fidgety Philip Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFGFGFF HHIIJJKKLLFF MMNNOOPQRSTT| Let me see if Philip can | A |
| Be a little gentleman | B |
| Let me see if he is able | C |
| To sit still for once at table | C |
| Thus Papa bade Phil behave | D |
| And Mamma looked very grave | D |
| But fidgety Phil | E |
| He won't sit still | E |
| He wriggles | F |
| And giggles | F |
| And then I declare | G |
| Swings backwards and forwards | F |
| And tilts up his chair | G |
| Just like any rocking horse | F |
| Philip I am getting cross | F |
| - | |
| See the naughty restless child | H |
| Growing still more rude and wild | H |
| Till his chair falls over quite | I |
| Philip screams with all his might | I |
| Catches at the cloth but then | J |
| That makes matters worse again | J |
| Down upon the ground they fall | K |
| Glasses plates knives forks and all | K |
| How Mamma did fret and frown | L |
| When she saw them tumbling down | L |
| And Papa made such a face | F |
| Philip is in sad disgrace | F |
| - | |
| Where is Philip where is he | M |
| Fairly covered up you see | M |
| Cloth and all are lying on him | N |
| He has pulled down all upon him | N |
| What a terrible to do | O |
| Dishes glasses snapt in two | O |
| Here a knife and there a fork | P |
| Philip this is cruel work | Q |
| Table all so bare and ah | R |
| Poor Papa and poor Mamma | S |
| Look quite cross and wonder how | T |
| They shall have their dinner now | T |
Heinrich Hoffmann
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