A Genteel Family. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGCH IBJB KLAL MDAD NAOA| Some children are so naughty | A |
| And some are very good | B |
| But the Genteel Family | A |
| Did always what it should | B |
| - | |
| They put on gloves when they went out | C |
| And ran not in the street | D |
| And on wet days not one of them | E |
| Had ever muddy feet | D |
| - | |
| Then they were always so polite | F |
| And always thanked you so | G |
| And never threw their toys about | C |
| As naughty children do | H |
| - | |
| They always learnt their lessons | I |
| When it was time they should | B |
| And liked to eat up all their crusts | J |
| They were so very good | B |
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| And then their frocks were never torn | K |
| Their tuckers always clean | L |
| And their hair so very tidy | A |
| Always quite fit to be seen | L |
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| Then they made calls with their mamma | M |
| And were so very neat | D |
| And learnt to bow becomingly | A |
| When they met you in the street | D |
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| And really they were everything | N |
| That children ought to be | A |
| And well may be examples now | O |
| For little you and me | A |
Kate Greenaway
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