Little Birds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCB ADDCCD AEEEEE ACCCCC ACCFGC AHHAAH AIIAAI AJJKKJ ACCJJC ALLMMLLittle Birds are dining | A |
Warily and well | B |
Hid in mossy cell | B |
Hid I say by waiters | C |
Gorgeous in their gaiters | C |
I've a Tale to tell | B |
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Little Birds are feeding | A |
Justices with jam | D |
Rich in frizzled ham | D |
Rich I say in oysters | C |
Haunting shady cloisters | C |
That is what I am | D |
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Little Birds are teaching | A |
Tigresses to smile | E |
Innocent of guile | E |
Smile I say not smirkle | E |
Mouth a semicircle | E |
That's the proper style | E |
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Little Birds are sleeping | A |
All among the pins | C |
Where the loser wins | C |
Where I say he sneezes | C |
When and how he pleases | C |
So the Tale begins | C |
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Little Birds are writing | A |
Interesting books | C |
To be read by cooks | C |
Read I say not roasted | F |
Letterpress when toasted | G |
Loses its good looks | C |
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Little Birds are playing | A |
Bagpipes on the shore | H |
Where the tourists snore | H |
Thanks they cry 'Tis thrilling | A |
Take oh take this shilling | A |
Let us have no more | H |
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Little Birds are bathing | A |
Crocodiles in cream | I |
Like a happy dream | I |
Like but not so lasting | A |
Crocodiles when fasting | A |
Are not all they seem | I |
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Little Birds are choking | A |
Baronets with bun | J |
Taught to fire a gun | J |
Taught I say to splinter | K |
Salmon in the winter | K |
Merely for the fun | J |
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Little Birds are hiding | A |
Crimes in carpet bags | C |
Blessed by happy stags | C |
Blessed I say though beaten | J |
Since our friends are eaten | J |
When the memory flags | C |
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Little Birds are tasting | A |
Gratitude and gold | L |
Pale with sudden cold | L |
Pale I say and wrinkled | M |
When the bells have tinkled | M |
And the Tale is told | L |
Lewis Carroll
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