Little Red Riding Hood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDEFCAGAGCHIHICF CJKLKFFMFMFFCNONOPQR QRPFCFAFASTRTRSFCFUF UKVWVWKFC| Ye days of April weather | A |
| Ye shadows that are cast | B |
| By the haunted hours before | C |
| Come back come back my childhood | D |
| Thou art summon'd by a spell | E |
| From the green leaves of the wild wood | D |
| From beside the charmed well | E |
| For Red Riding Hood the darling | F |
| The flower of fairy lore | C |
| The fields were cover'd over | A |
| With colours as she went | G |
| Daisy buttercup and clover | A |
| Below her footsteps bent | G |
| Summer shed its shining store | C |
| She was happy as she press'd them | H |
| Beneath her little feet | I |
| She pluck'd them and caress'd them | H |
| They were so very sweet | I |
| They had never seem'd so sweet before | C |
| To Red Riding Hood the darling | F |
| The flower of fairy lore | C |
| How the heart of childhood dances | J |
| Upon a sunny day | K |
| It has its own romances | L |
| And a wide wide world have they | K |
| A world where phantasie is king | F |
| Made all of eager dreaming | F |
| When once grown up and tall | M |
| Now is the time for scheming | F |
| Then we shall do them all | M |
| Do such pleasant fancies spring | F |
| For Red Riding Hood the darling | F |
| The flower of fairy lore | C |
| She seems like an ideal love | N |
| The poetry of childhood shown | O |
| And yet loved with a real love | N |
| As if she were our own | O |
| A younger sister for the heart | P |
| Like the woodland pheasant | Q |
| Her hair is brown and bright | R |
| And her smile is pleasant | Q |
| With its rosy light | R |
| Never can the memory part | P |
| With Red Riding Hood the darling | F |
| The flower of fairy lore | C |
| Did the painter dreaming | F |
| In a morning hour | A |
| Catch the fairy seeming | F |
| Of this fairy flower | A |
| Winning it with eager eyes | S |
| From the old enchanted stories | T |
| Lingering with a long delight | R |
| On the unforgotten glories | T |
| Of the infant sight | R |
| Giving us a sweet surprise | S |
| In Red Riding Hood the darling | F |
| The flower of fairy lore | C |
| Too long in the meadow staying | F |
| Where the cowslip bends | U |
| With the buttercups delaying | F |
| As with early friends | U |
| Did the little maiden stay | K |
| Sorrowful the tale for us | V |
| We too loiter mid life's flowers | W |
| A little while so glorious | V |
| So soon lost in darker hours | W |
| All love lingering on their way | K |
| Like Red Riding Hood the darling | F |
| The flower of fairy lore | C |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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