The Making Up Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE FF AA GG| Little Miss Margaret sits in a pout | A |
| She and her Dolly have just fallen out | A |
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| Dolly is gazing with sorest stare | B |
| Fitted dejectedly back in her chair | B |
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| Angry at Margaret tearful and grieved | C |
| Sore at the spanking so lately received | C |
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| Pursed are the maiden's lips close as can be | D |
| They are not speaking Miss Dolly and she | D |
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| Five minutes passes in silence and then | E |
| Margaret's ready for playing again | E |
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| Dolly unbendingly sits in her place | F |
| Never a change coming over her face | F |
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| Up mad goes Margaret dropping her pout | A |
| Clasping her playmate she whispers in doubt | A |
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| Let's don't play and cry it's too much like true | G |
| Let's make up Dolly I ain't mad is you | G |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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