Dilly Dally Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABABABCDDB E FFGFGFB DDB E HHGHGHB DDB| There is a little girl I know | A |
| Who takes her time to come and go | A |
| If you should ask her please to hurry | B |
| She tries her best then to be slow | A |
| She gives her parents lots of worry | B |
| But she she never worries no | A |
| Her name is Dilly Dally | B |
| But some folks call her'Gallie ' | C |
| From head to feet | D |
| She's never neat | D |
| But always shilly shally | B |
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| II | E |
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| When it is time for her to rise | F |
| She won't get up but lies and lies | F |
| Her head beneath the cover | G |
| Then down she comes with sleepy eyes | F |
| When breakfast time is over | G |
| Uncombed with shoes she never ties | F |
| Her name is Dilly Dally | B |
| But some folks call her'Gallie ' | - |
| From head to feet | D |
| She's never neat | D |
| But always shilly shally | B |
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| III | E |
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| When it is time to go to bed | H |
| She plays around or hangs her head | H |
| And mopes in some dark corner | G |
| And cries and wishes she were dead | H |
| No girl could be forlorner | G |
| When off to bed at last she's led | H |
| Her name is Dilly Dally | B |
| But some folks call her'Gallie ' | - |
| From head to feet | D |
| She's never neat | D |
| But always shilly shally | B |
Madison Julius Cawein
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