The Tale Of Custard The Dragon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIBB AAHH JJKK KKKK LLKK BBMM BBKK NOKK KKCCPP AABB GGHHBelinda lived in a little white house | A |
With a little black kitten and a little gray mouse | A |
And a little yellow dog and a little red wagon | B |
And a realio trulio little pet dragon | B |
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Now the name of the little black kitten was Ink | C |
And the little gray mouse she called her Blink | C |
And the little yellow dog was sharp as Mustard | D |
But the dragon was a coward and she called him Custard | D |
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Custard the dragon had big sharp teeth | E |
And spikes on top of him and scales underneath | E |
Mouth like a fireplace chimney for a nose | F |
And realio trulio daggers on his toes | F |
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Belinda was as brave as a barrel full of bears | G |
And Ink and Blink chased lions down the stairs | G |
Mustard was as brave as a tiger in a rage | H |
But Custard cried for a nice safe cage | H |
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Belinda tickled him she tickled him unmerciful | I |
Ink Blink and Mustard they rudely called him Percival | I |
They all sat laughing in the little red wagon | B |
At the realio trulio cowardly dragon | B |
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Belinda giggled till she shook the house | A |
And Blink said Week which is giggling for a mouse | A |
Ink and Mustard rudely asked his age | H |
When Custard cried for a nice safe cage | H |
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Suddenly suddenly they heard a nasty sound | J |
And Mustard growled and they all looked around | J |
Meowch cried Ink and Ooh cried Belinda | K |
For there was a pirate climbing in the winda | K |
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Pistol in his left hand pistol in his right | K |
And he held in his teeth a cutlass bright | K |
His beard was black one leg was wood | K |
It was clear that the pirate meant no good | K |
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Belinda paled and she cried Help Help | L |
But Mustard fled with a terrified yelp | L |
Ink trickled down to the bottom of the household | K |
And little mouse Blink strategically mouseholed | K |
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But up jumped Custard snorting like an engine | B |
Clashed his tail like irons in a dungeon | B |
With a clatter and a clank and a jangling squirm | M |
He went at the pirate like a robin at a worm | M |
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The pirate gaped at Belinda's dragon | B |
And gulped some grog from his pocket flagon | B |
He fired two bullets but they didn't hit | K |
And Custard gobbled him every bit | K |
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Belinda embraced him Mustard licked him | N |
No one mourned for his pirate victim | O |
Ink and Blink in glee did gyrate | K |
Around the dragon that ate the pyrate | K |
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But presently up spoke little dog Mustard | K |
I'd been twice as brave if I hadn't been flustered | K |
And up spoke Ink and up spoke Blink | C |
We'd have been three times as brave we think | C |
And Custard said I quite agree | P |
That everybody is braver than me | P |
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Belinda still lives in her little white house | A |
With her little black kitten and her little gray mouse | A |
And her little yellow dog and her little red wagon | B |
And her realio trulio little pet dragon | B |
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Belinda is as brave as a barrel full of bears | G |
And Ink and Blink chase lions down the stairs | G |
Mustard is as brave as a tiger in a rage | H |
But Custard keeps crying for a nice safe cage | H |
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Elizabeth: loved this poem when I was a kid. I know it by heart and have recited it many times in the past. So happy to find it again.
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