Introduction: The Bad Child's Book Of Beasts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLK| I call you bad my little child | A |
| Upon the title page | B |
| Because a manner rude and wild | A |
| Is common at your age | B |
| - | |
| The Moral of this priceless work | C |
| If rightly understood | D |
| Will make you from a little Turk | C |
| Unnaturally good | D |
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| Do not as evil children do | E |
| Who on the slightest grounds | F |
| Will imitate the Kangaroo | E |
| With wild unmeaning bounds | F |
| - | |
| Do not as children badly bred | G |
| Who eat like little Hogs | H |
| And when they have to go to bed | G |
| Will whine like Puppy Dogs | H |
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| Who take their manners from the Ape | I |
| Their habits from the Bear | J |
| Indulge the loud unseemly jape | I |
| And never brush their hair | J |
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| But so control your actions that | K |
| Your friends may all repeat | L |
| 'This child is dainty as the Cat | K |
| And as the Owl discreet ' | - |
Hilaire Belloc
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