A Game Of Fives Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB AA CC AA DD EE FFGG| Five little girls of Five Four Three Two One | A |
| Rolling on the hearthrug full of tricks and fun | A |
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| Five rosy girls in years from Ten to Six | B |
| Sitting down to lessons no more time for tricks | B |
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| Five growing girls from Fifteen to Eleven | A |
| Music Drawing Languages and food enough for seven | A |
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| Five winsome girls from Twenty to Sixteen | C |
| Each young man that calls I say Now tell me which you MEAN | C |
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| Five dashing girls the youngest Twenty one | A |
| But if nobody proposes what is there to be done | A |
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| Five showy girls but Thirty is an age | D |
| When girls may be ENGAGING but they somehow don't ENGAGE | D |
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| Five dressy girls of Thirty one or more | E |
| So gracious to the shy young men they snubbed so much before | E |
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| Five PASSE girls Their age Well never mind | F |
| We jog along together like the rest of human kind | F |
| But the quondam careless bachelor begins to think he knows | G |
| The answer to that ancient problem how the money goes | G |
Lewis Carroll
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