What Happened To Lazy Charlotte Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDDEEFF GGHH IIJJ KKLL| Here Charlotte said Mamma one day | A |
| These stockings knit while I'm away | A |
| And should you fail be sure you'll find | B |
| Mamma is strict although she's kind | B |
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| But Charlotte took a lazy fit | C |
| And did not feel inclined to knit | C |
| And soon upon the ground let fall | D |
| Needles and worsted hose and all | D |
| I shall not knit said she not I | E |
| At least not now but by and by | E |
| Then stretched and yawned and rubbed her eyes | F |
| Like sluggards when 'tis time to rise | F |
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| But when Mamma came home and found | G |
| The work all strewed upon the ground | G |
| Quoth she You will not knit and so | H |
| To school barefooted you shall go | H |
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| This put poor Charlotte in a fright | I |
| And though she knew it served her right | I |
| She wept and begged and prayed but still | J |
| She could not change her mother's will | J |
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| To school where all were spruce and neat | K |
| Poor Charlotte went with naked feet | K |
| Some showed their pity some their pride | L |
| While Charlotte hid her face and cried | L |
Heinrich Hoffmann
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