Willie's And Nellie's Wish Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDEF GHI JKJK LBMBNBOB BPBPQBR SBMBHTU OEVWXBYB| Willie and Nellie one evening sat | A |
| By their own little cottage door | B |
| They saw a man go staggering by | C |
| Says Willie that's Mr Lanore | B |
| He is just going home from town where | B |
| He has been in a saloon | D |
| When Maggie and I came from school | E |
| Said Maggie 'please papa come home ' | F |
| - | |
| She asked him again again to come home | G |
| At last he got angry and said | H |
| 'Maggie go home don't bother me so | I |
| Go home now and shut up your head ' | - |
| Poor girl she came weeping all the way | J |
| As though her poor heart would break | K |
| She could not play not a word would say | J |
| With playmates no pleasure could take | K |
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| 'Tis the same child Willie replied | L |
| I'm sorry for Maggie Lanore | B |
| I wish her papa would sign the pledge | M |
| And try to be a man once more | B |
| He drinks up all the money he earns | N |
| In whiskey rum gin and beer | B |
| His home is a home of poverty | O |
| Made so by his own career | B |
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| Says Nellie I wish Mr Lanore | B |
| Would go to the meeting to night | P |
| And hear the temperance lecture | B |
| Then perhaps he would try to do right | P |
| One more little home of happiness | Q |
| Would be in our midst I am sure | B |
| Then Maggie Lanore could say with joy | R |
| 'My papa don't drink any more ' | - |
| - | |
| Said Nellie I told her never mind | S |
| We would be her friends evermore | B |
| I hoped her papa would sign the pledge | M |
| Then he would not drink any more | B |
| Then smiling through her tears she said | H |
| 'The temperance pledge you mean | T |
| If papa would sign it then mamma | U |
| And I will take comfort I ween ' | - |
| - | |
| I wonder says Nellie can it be | O |
| The same child I saw go to school | E |
| She wore ragged clothes I saw her toes | V |
| Were peeping out of her old shoes | W |
| She has curly hair and mild blue eyes | X |
| Can this child be Maggie Lanore | B |
| If it is her I sincerely wish | Y |
| Her papa won't drink any more | B |
Julia Ann Moore
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