Size And Tears Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCBCDE FDFDGG HIHIJJ KLKLGG JMJMNN OPOPGG LQLQRR DSESGG| A | |
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| When on the sandy shore I sit | B |
| Beside the salt sea wave | C |
| And fall into a weeping fit | B |
| Because I dare not shave | C |
| A little whisper at my ear | D |
| Enquires the reason of my fear | E |
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| I answer If that ruffian Jones | F |
| Should recognise me here | D |
| He'd bellow out my name in tones | F |
| Offensive to the ear | D |
| He chaffs me so on being stout | G |
| A thing that always puts me out | G |
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| Ah me I see him on the cliff | H |
| Farewell farewell to hope | I |
| If he should look this way and if | H |
| He's got his telescope | I |
| To whatsoever place I flee | J |
| My odious rival follows me | J |
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| For every night and everywhere | K |
| I meet him out at dinner | L |
| And when I've found some charming fair | K |
| And vowed to die or win her | L |
| The wretch he's thin and I am stout | G |
| Is sure to come and cut me out | G |
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| The girls just like them all agree | J |
| To praise J Jones Esquire | M |
| I ask them what on earth they see | J |
| About him to admire | M |
| They cry He is so sleek and slim | N |
| It's quite a treat to look at him | N |
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| They vanish in tobacco smoke | O |
| Those visionary maids | P |
| I feel a sharp and sudden poke | O |
| Between the shoulder blades | P |
| Why Brown my boy Your growing stout | G |
| I told you he would find me out | G |
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| My growth is not YOUR business Sir | L |
| No more it is my boy | Q |
| But if it's YOURS as I infer | L |
| Why Brown I give you joy | Q |
| A man whose business prospers so | R |
| Is just the sort of man to know | R |
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| It's hardly safe though talking here | D |
| I'd best get out of reach | S |
| For such a weight as yours I fear | E |
| Must shortly sink the beach | S |
| Insult me thus because I'm stout | G |
| I vow I'll go and call him out | G |
Lewis Carroll
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