Speak Roughly To Your Little Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEDFBGHIDEDJ| And with that she | A |
| began nursing her child again singing a sort of | B |
| lullaby to it as she did so and giving it a vio | B |
| lent shake at the end of every line | C |
| Speak roughly to your little boy | D |
| And beat him when he sneezes | E |
| He only does it to annoy | D |
| Because he knows it teases CHORUS | F |
| in which the cook and the baby joined Wow wow wow While the Duchess sang the second verse of | B |
| the song she kept tossing the baby violently up | G |
| and down and the poor little thing howled so | H |
| that Alice could hardly hear the words | I |
| I speak severely to my boy | D |
| I beat him when he sneezes | E |
| For he can thoroughly enjoy | D |
| The pepper when he pleases CHORUS Wow wow wow | J |
Lewis Carroll
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