Kitchen Clock, The Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDAAEEFF AAGGAAAAEEFF AAHHAAAAIIFF AAJJAAAAKKFF AACDAAAALLFFKnitting is the maid o' the kitchen Milly | A |
Doing nothing sits the chore boy Billy | A |
Seconds reckoned | B |
Seconds reckoned | B |
Every minute | C |
Sixty in it | D |
Milly Billy | A |
Billy Milly | A |
Tick tock tock tick | E |
Nick knock knock nick | E |
Knockety nick nickety knock | F |
Goes the kitchen clock | F |
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Closer to the fire is rosy Milly | A |
Every whit as close and cosy Billy | A |
Time's a flying | G |
Worth your trying | G |
Pretty Milly | A |
Kiss her Billy | A |
Milly Billy | A |
Billy Milly | A |
Tick tock tock tick | E |
Now now quick quick | E |
Knockety nick nickety knock | F |
Goes the kitchen clock | F |
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Something's happened very red is Milly | A |
Billy boy is looking very silly | A |
Pretty misses | H |
Plenty kisses | H |
Make it twenty | A |
Take a plenty | A |
Billy Milly | A |
Milly Billy | A |
Right left left right | I |
That's right all right | I |
Knockety nick nickety knock | F |
Goes the kitchen clock | F |
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Weeks gone still they're sitting Milly Billy | A |
O the winter winds are wondrous chilly | A |
Winter weather | J |
Close together | J |
Wouldn't tarry | A |
Better marry | A |
Milly Billy | A |
Billy Milly | A |
Two one one two | K |
Don't wait 'twon't do | K |
Knockety nick nickety knock | F |
Goes the kitchen clock | F |
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Winters two have gone and where is Milly | A |
Spring has come again and where is Billy | A |
Give me credit | C |
For I did it | D |
Treat me kindly | A |
Mind you wind me | A |
Mister Billy | A |
Mistress Milly | A |
My O O my | L |
By by by by | L |
Nickety knock cradle rock | F |
Goes the kitchen clock | F |
John Vance Cheney
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