Papa Poodle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHBBII JJKKLL| Can any one look so wise and have so little in his head | A |
| How long will it be Papa Poodle before you have learned to read | A |
| You were called Papa Poodle because you took care of me when I was a baby | B |
| And now I can read words of three syllables and you sit with a book before you like a regular gaby | B |
| You've not read a word since I put you in that corner ten minutes ago | C |
| Bill and I've fought the battle of Waterloo since dinner and you've not learned BA BE BI BO | C |
| Here am I doing the whole British Army by myself for Bill is obliged to be the French | D |
| And I've come away to hear you say your lesson and left Bill waiting for me in the trench | D |
| And there you sit with a curly white wig like the Lord Chief Justice and as grave a face | E |
| Looking the very picture of goodness and wisdom when you're really in the deepest disgrace | E |
| Those woolly locks of yours grow thicker and thicker Papa Poodle | F |
| Does the wool tangle inside as well as outside your head and is it that which makes you such a noodle | F |
| You seem so clever at some things and so stupid at others and I keep wondering why | G |
| But I'm afraid the truth is Papa Poodle that you're uncommonly sly | G |
| You did no spelling lessons last week for you were out from morning till night | H |
| Except when you slunk in like a dirty door mat on legs and with one ear bleeding from a fight | H |
| Looking as if you'd no notion what o'clock it was and had come home to see | B |
| But your watch keeps very good meal time Papa Poodle for you're always at breakfast and dinner and tea | B |
| No it's no good your shaking hands and licking me with your tongue I know you can do that | I |
| But sitting up and giving paws and kissing won't teach you to spell C A T Cat | I |
| I wonder if I let you off lessons whether I could teach you to pull the string with your teeth and fire our new gun | J |
| If I could you might be the Artillery all to yourself and it would be capital fun | J |
| You wag your tail at that do you You would like it a great deal better | K |
| But I can't bear you to be such a dunce when you look so wise and yet I don't believe you'll ever learn a letter | K |
| Aunt Jemima is going to make me a new cocked hat out of the next old newspaper for I want to have a review | L |
| But the newspaper after that Papa Poodle must be kept to make a fool's cap for you | L |
Juliana Horatia Ewing
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