Alice And The White Knight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D E F G H I J KL LMLMN NO PQPQNRN LSLSON N TUVUWXW BYBYZA2Z PB2C2B2D2E2E2E2 F2G2G2G2H2I2H2 J2E2J2E2HI2HI2 K2A2K2A2L2ML2L2L2L2L 2L2L2L2L2L2L2L2M M2| Alice was walking beside the White Knight in Looking Glass Land | A |
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| 'You are sad ' the Knight said in an anxious tone 'let me sing you a song to comfort you ' | - |
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| 'Is it very long ' Alice asked for she had heard a good deal of poetry that day | B |
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| 'It's long ' said the Knight 'but it's very very beautiful Everybody that hears me sing it | C |
| either it brings tears to their eyes or else ' | - |
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| 'Or else what ' said Alice for the Knight had made a sudden pause | D |
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| 'Or else it doesn't you know The name of the song is called 'Haddocks' Eyes '' | - |
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| 'Oh that's the name of the song is it ' Alice said trying to feel interested | E |
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| 'No you don't understand ' the Knight said looking a little vexed 'That's what the name | F |
| is called The name really is 'The Aged Aged Man '' | - |
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| 'Then I ought to have said 'That's what the song is called' ' Alice corrected herself | G |
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| 'No you oughtn't that's another thing The song is called 'Ways and Means' but that's only | H |
| what it's called you know ' | - |
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| 'Well what is the song then ' said Alice who was by this time completely bewildered | I |
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| 'I was coming to that ' the Knight said 'The song really is 'A sitting On a Gate' and the | J |
| tune's my own invention ' | - |
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| So saying he stopped his horse and let the reins fall on its neck then slowly beating time | K |
| with one hand and with a faint smile lighting up his gentle foolish face he began | L |
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| I'll tell thee everything I can | L |
| There's little to relate | M |
| I saw an aged aged man | L |
| A sitting on a gate | M |
| 'Who are you aged man ' I said | N |
| ' And how is it you live ' | - |
| And his answer trickled through my head | N |
| like water through a sieve | O |
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| He said 'I look for butterflies | P |
| That sleep among the wheat | Q |
| I make them into mutton pies | P |
| And sell them in the street | Q |
| I sell them unto men ' he said | N |
| 'Who sail on stormy seas | R |
| And that's the way I get my bread | N |
| A trifle if you please ' | - |
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| But I was thinking of a plan | L |
| To dye one's whiskers green | S |
| And always use so large a fan | L |
| That they could not be seen | S |
| So having no reply to give | O |
| To what the old man said | N |
| I cried 'Come tell me how you live ' | - |
| And thumped him on the head | N |
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| His accents mild took up the tale | T |
| He said 'I go my ways | U |
| And when I find a mountain rill | V |
| I set it in a blaze | U |
| And thence they make a stuff they call | W |
| Rowland's Macassar Oil | X |
| Yet twopence halfpenny is all | W |
| They give me for my toil ' | - |
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| But I was thinking of a way | B |
| To feed one's self on batter | Y |
| And so go on from day to day | B |
| Getting a little fatter | Y |
| I shook him well from side to side | Z |
| Until his face was blue | A2 |
| 'Come tell me how you live ' I cried | Z |
| 'And what it is you do ' | - |
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| He said 'I hunt for haddocks' eyes | P |
| Among the heather bright | B2 |
| And work them into waistcoat buttons | C2 |
| In the silent night | B2 |
| And these I do not sell for gold | D2 |
| Or coin of silvery shine | E2 |
| But for a copper halfpenny | E2 |
| And that will purchase nine | E2 |
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| 'I sometimes dig for buttered rolls | F2 |
| Or set limed twigs for crabs | G2 |
| I sometimes search for grassy knolls | G2 |
| For wheels of hansom cabs | G2 |
| And that's the way' he gave a wink | H2 |
| 'By which I get my wealth | I2 |
| And very gladly will I drink | H2 |
| Your Honour's noble health ' | - |
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| I heard him then for I had just | J2 |
| Completed my design | E2 |
| To keep the Menai Bridge from rust | J2 |
| By boiling it in wine | E2 |
| I thanked him much for telling me | H |
| The way he got his wealth | I2 |
| But chiefly for the wish that he | H |
| Might drink my noble health | I2 |
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| And now if e'er by chance I put | K2 |
| My fingers into glue | A2 |
| Or madly squeeze a right hand foot | K2 |
| Into a left hand shoe | A2 |
| Or if I drop upon my toe | L2 |
| A very heavy weight | M |
| I weep for it reminds me so | L2 |
| Of that old man I used to know | L2 |
| Whose look was mild whose speech was slow | L2 |
| Whose hair was whiter than the snow | L2 |
| Whose face was very like a crow | L2 |
| With eyes like cinders all aglow | L2 |
| Who seemed distracted with his woe | L2 |
| Who rocked his body to and fro | L2 |
| And muttered mumblingly and low | L2 |
| As if his mouth were full of dough | L2 |
| Who snorted like a buffalo | L2 |
| That summer evening long ago | L2 |
| A sitting on a gate | M |
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| As the Knight sang the last words of the ballad he gathered up the reins and turned his horse's head along the road by which they had come | M2 |
Lewis Carroll
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