Cinderella Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCACA AAAAACAC DEDEFAFA GEGEHBIB| A lonely child with toil o ertaxed | A |
| Sits Cinderella by the fire | B |
| Her limbs in weariness relaxed | A |
| And in her eyes a sad desire | B |
| But soon a wreath is on her brow | C |
| A bonny prince has claimed her hand | A |
| And she s as proud and happy now | C |
| As any lady in the land | A |
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| Ah then to see a fairy bright | A |
| And to have granted what you would | A |
| You only needed to do right | A |
| You only needed to be good | A |
| But this was in the days of old | A |
| When man to wiser folk would bow | C |
| And though you were as good as gold | A |
| You d never see a fairy now | C |
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| And yet they must have managed well | D |
| If only half the tales are true | E |
| The wondrous tales the writers tell | D |
| Of what the fairies used to do | E |
| But now the world has grown so wise | F |
| It does without the fairies aid | A |
| And who can find a prince that tries | F |
| The shoe upon a beggar maid | A |
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| It must have been a better time | G |
| When virtue always met its due | E |
| And wicked men who dealt in crime | G |
| Were punished by the fairies too | E |
| But never more they ll come again | H |
| To give the good what they desire | B |
| And Cinderellas wait in vain | I |
| And weep beside the kitchen fire | B |
Henry Lawson
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