The Old Bad Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BC DD EE FF GG HH II JJ KK LL JJ FF MN OO| The Old Bad Woman was coming along | A |
| Busily humming a sort of song | A |
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| You could barely see below her bonnet | B |
| Her chin where her long nose rested on it | C |
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| One tooth thrust out on her lower lip | D |
| And she held one hand upon her hip | D |
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| Then we went to thinking mighty fast | E |
| For we knew our time had come at last | E |
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| For what we had done and didn't do | F |
| The Old Bad Woman would put us through | F |
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| If you cried enough to fill your hat | G |
| She wouldn't care she was used to that | G |
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| Of the jam we had eaten she would know | H |
| How we ran barefooted in the snow | H |
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| How we cried when they made us take our bath | I |
| How we tied the grass across the path | I |
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| How we bound together the cat and cur | J |
| We couldn't deny these things to her | J |
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| She pulled her nose up off her chin | K |
| And blinked at us with an awful grin | K |
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| And we almost died becaze and because | L |
| Her bony fingers looked like claws | L |
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| When she came on up to where we were | J |
| How could we be polite to her | J |
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| You needn't guess how she put us through | F |
| If you are bad she'll visit you | F |
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| And when she leaves and hobbles off | M |
| You'll think that she has done enough | N |
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| For the Old Bad Woman will and can | O |
| Be just as bad as the Old Bad Man | O |
John Charles Mcneill
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