Rebecca Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDD EEDDDD DDFFDD GGCCHH CCCCC| Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably | A |
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| A trick that everyone abhors | B |
| In little girls is slamming doors | B |
| A wealthy banker's little daughter | C |
| Who lived in Palace Green Bayswater | C |
| By name Rebecca Offendort | D |
| Was given to this furious sport | D |
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| She would deliberately go | E |
| And slam the door like billy o | E |
| To make her uncle Jacob start | D |
| She was not really bad at heart | D |
| But only rather rude and wild | D |
| She was an aggravating child | D |
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| It happened that a marble bust | D |
| Of Abraham was standing just | D |
| Above the door this little lamb | F |
| Had carefully prepared to slam | F |
| And down it came It knocked her flat | D |
| It laid her out She looked like that | D |
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| Her funeral sermon which was long | G |
| And followed by a sacred song | G |
| Mentioned her virtues it is true | C |
| But dwelt upon her vices too | C |
| And showed the deadful end of one | H |
| Who goes and slams the door for fun | H |
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| The children who were brought to hear | C |
| The awful tale from far and near | C |
| Were much impressed and inly swore | C |
| They never more would slam the door | C |
| As often they had done before | C |
Hilaire Belloc
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