Janet Waking Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE DGGD HIIH JBBK LMML| Beautifully Janet slept | A |
| Till it was deeply morning She woke then | B |
| And thought about her dainty feathered hen | B |
| To see how it had kept | A |
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| One kiss she gave her mother | C |
| Only a small one gave she to her daddy | D |
| Who would have kissed each curl of his shining baby | D |
| No kiss at all for her brother | C |
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| Old Chucky Old Chucky she cried | E |
| Running on little pink feet upon the grass | F |
| To Chucky s house and listening But alas | F |
| Her Chucky had died | E |
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| It was a transmogrifying bee | D |
| Came droning down on Chucky s old bald head | G |
| And sat and put the poison It scarcely bled | G |
| But how exceedingly | D |
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| And purply did the knot | H |
| Swell with the venom and communicate | I |
| Its rigour Now the poor comb stood up straight | I |
| But Chucky did not | H |
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| So there was Janet | J |
| Kneeling on the wet grass crying her brown hen | B |
| Translated far beyond the daughters of men | B |
| To rise and walk upon it | K |
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| And weeping fast as she had breath | L |
| Janet implored us Wake her from her sleep | M |
| And would not be instructed in how deep | M |
| Was the forgetful kingdom of death | L |
John Crowe Ransom
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