The Black Monkey Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHII JJKKLM NNOONN| My Babbles has a nasty knack | A |
| Of keeping monkeys on her back | A |
| A great big black one comes and swings | B |
| Right on her sash or pinny strings | B |
| It is a horrid thing and wild | C |
| And makes her such a naughty child | C |
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| She comes and stands beside my chair | D |
| With almost an offended air | D |
| And says Oh Father why can't I | E |
| And stamps her foot and starts to cry | E |
| I look at Mother in dismay | F |
| What little girl is this to day | F |
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| She throws about her nicest toys | G |
| And makes a truly dreadful noise | G |
| Till Mother rises from her place | H |
| With quite a Sunday churchy face | H |
| And Babbles silently is led | I |
| Into the dark and her own bed | I |
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| Never a kiss or one Goodnight | J |
| Never a glimpse of candle light | J |
| Oh how the monkey simply flies | K |
| Oh how poor Babbles calls and cries | K |
| Runs from the room with might and main | L |
| Father dear I am good again | M |
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| When she is sitting on my knee | N |
| Snuggled quite close and kissing me | N |
| Babbles and I we think the same | O |
| Why that the monkey never came | O |
| Only a terrible dream maybe | N |
| What did she have for evening tea | N |
Katherine Mansfield
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