The Good-natured Girls Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ| Two good little children named Mary and Ann | A |
| Both happily live as good girls always can | A |
| And though they are not either sullen or mute | B |
| They seldom or never are heard to dispute | B |
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| If one wants a thing that the other would like | C |
| Well what do they do Must they quarrel and strike | C |
| No each is so willing to give up her own | D |
| That such disagreements are there never known | D |
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| If one of them happens to have something nice | E |
| Directly she offers her sister a slice | E |
| And never like some greedy children would try | F |
| To eat in a corner with nobody by | F |
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| When papa or mamma has a job to be done | G |
| These good little children immediately run | G |
| Nor dispute whether this or the other should go | H |
| They would be ashamed to behave themselves so | H |
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| Whatever occurs in their work or their play | I |
| They are willing to yield and give up their own way | I |
| Then now let us try their example to mind | J |
| And always like them be obliging and kind | J |
Jane Taylor
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