She's All My Fancy Painted Him Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH HDHD JKJC LMNM OJOJ| She's all my fancy painted him | A |
| I make no idle boast | B |
| If he or you had lost a limb | A |
| Which would have suffered most | B |
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| He said that you had been to her | C |
| And seen me here before | D |
| But in another character | C |
| She was the same of yore | D |
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| There was not one that spoke to us | E |
| Of all that thronged the street | F |
| So he sadly got into a 'bus | E |
| And pattered with his feet | F |
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| They sent him word I had not gone | G |
| We know it to be true | H |
| If she should push the matter on | I |
| What would become of you | H |
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| They gave her one the gave me two | H |
| They gave us three or more | D |
| They all returned from him to you | H |
| Though they were mine before | D |
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| If I or she should chance to be | J |
| Involved in this affair | K |
| He trusts to you to set them free | J |
| Exactly as we were | C |
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| It seemed to me that you had been | L |
| Before she had this fit | M |
| An obstacle that came between | N |
| Him and ourselves and it | M |
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| Don't let him know she liked them best | O |
| For this must ever be | J |
| A secret kept from all the rest | O |
| Between yourself and me | J |
Lewis Carroll
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