Ragamuffin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEDEBBFF G HIIHJJKELEBBMM G NBBNBBBEBEBBOO P QBBQQQRE EBBSS| There's a boy that you must know | A |
| Always ragged dirty too | B |
| Just a wretched sight and show | A |
| Worst boy that I ever knew | B |
| Always hitting other boys | C |
| Smaller than himself Annoys | C |
| People too by throwing stones | D |
| Breaks more windows that's his game | E |
| Some one ought to break his bones | D |
| Ragamuffin is his name | E |
| Ragamuffin Ragamuffin | B |
| Some day some one 'll knock the stuffin' | B |
| Out of you and then perhaps | F |
| You won't bully little chaps | F |
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| II | G |
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| Never goes to school but plays | H |
| Hookey all the time His hat | I |
| Slouched like some old drunken bat | I |
| Reeling through the evening haze | H |
| Here he loafs and tries to scare | J |
| Little girls yes pulls their hair | J |
| While he mouths at them and jeers | K |
| Chews tobacco too the same | E |
| As these ragged grasshoppers | L |
| Ragamuffin is his name | E |
| Ragamuffin Ragamuffin | B |
| Some day you'll go home a snuffin' | B |
| Some big brother's going to fix | M |
| You for all your loafer tricks | M |
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| III | G |
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| And at night he comes around | N |
| Prying in the windows when | B |
| Children are alone and then | B |
| Knocks and makes a dreadful sound | N |
| Like a robber getting in | B |
| Scares them till it is a sin | B |
| Looking fierce as robbers do | B |
| Cursing till it is a shame | E |
| It would even frighten you | B |
| Ragamuffin is his name | E |
| Ragamuffin Ragamuffin | B |
| You had better quit your bluffin' | B |
| Watchman sure will cross your trail | O |
| Catch and lock you up in jail | O |
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| IV | P |
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| But the worst thing that he does | Q |
| So I think is poking fun | B |
| At poor beggars never a one | B |
| Beggarly or villanous | Q |
| As himself is And he laughs | Q |
| Fit to kill and apes and chaffs | Q |
| Every cripple lies in wait | R |
| Just to mock pretends he's lame | E |
| Jeers then 'Say why ain't you straight ' | - |
| Ragamuffin is his name | E |
| Ragamuffin Ragamuffin | B |
| Some day you will get a cuffin' | B |
| Man will kill you with a crutch | S |
| Hey we would n't miss you much | S |
Madison Julius Cawein
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