Rilloby-rill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACB DBDDCB EBEECB FBFFCB GBGGCB HBHHCB| Grasshoppers four a fiddling went | A |
| Heigh ho never be still | B |
| They earned but little towards their rent | A |
| But all day long with their elbows bent | A |
| They fiddled a tune called Rilloby rilloby | C |
| Fiddled a tune called Rilloby rill | B |
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| Grasshoppers soon on Fairies came | D |
| Heigh ho never be still | B |
| Fairies asked with a manner of blame | D |
| Where do you come from what is your name | D |
| What do you want with your Rilloby rilloby | C |
| What do you want with your Rilloby rill | B |
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| Madam you see before you stand | E |
| Heigh ho never be still | B |
| The Old Original Favourite Grand | E |
| Grasshopper's Green Herbarian Band | E |
| And the tune we play is Rilloby rilloby | C |
| Madam the tune is Rilloby rill | B |
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| Fairies hadn't a word to say | F |
| Heigh ho never be still | B |
| Fairies seldom are sweet by day | F |
| But the Grasshoppers merrily fiddled away | F |
| O but they played with a willoby rilloby | C |
| O but they played with a willoby will | B |
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| Fairies slumber and sulk at noon | G |
| Heigh ho never be still | B |
| But at last the kind old motherly moon | G |
| Brought them dew in a silver spoon | G |
| And they turned to ask for Rilloby rilloby | C |
| One more round of Rilloby rill | B |
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| Ah but nobody now replied | H |
| Heigh ho never be still | B |
| When day went down the music died | H |
| Grasshoppers four lay side by side | H |
| And there was an end of their Rilloby rilloby | C |
| There was an end of their Rilloby rill | B |
Henry John Newbolt, Sir
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