The Dogs' Welcome Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDBDC EEFGFFFG HHIJFIFJ KKLLFF MMNNOPCPQRR STSUVWVWWDD| Hush We're not a pack of boys | A |
| Always bound to make a noise | A |
| True there's one amongst us but | B |
| He is young | C |
| And wherever we may take him | D |
| We can generally shut | B |
| Such a youngster up and make him | D |
| Hold his tongue | C |
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| Hush Most cautiously we go | E |
| On the tippest tip of toe | E |
| Are the dogs expecting us | F |
| At the gate | G |
| Two who usually prize us | F |
| Will they jump and make a fuss | F |
| Will they really recognise us | F |
| Where they wait | G |
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| Hush I hear the funny pair | H |
| Softly whimpering yes they're there | H |
| Dane and Pekinese they scratch | I |
| At the wood | J |
| At the solid wood between us | F |
| Duke attempts to lift the latch | I |
| It's a month since they have seen us | F |
| Open Good | J |
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| Down Duke down Enough enough | K |
| Soo Ti's screaming seize his scruff | K |
| Soo Ti's having fearful fits | L |
| Duke is tearing us to bits | L |
| One will trip us one will throw us | F |
| But the darlings don't they know us | F |
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| Then off with a clatter the long dog leapt and oh what a race he ran | M |
| At the hurricane pace of a minute a mile as only a long dog can | M |
| Into and out of the bushes he pierced like a shooting star | N |
| And now he thundered around us and now he was whirling far | N |
| And the little dog gazed till he seemed amazed | O |
| and then he took to it too | P |
| With shrill notes flung from his pert pink tongue | C |
| right after his friend he flew | P |
| And the long legs lashed and the short legs flashed | Q |
| and scurried like anything | R |
| While Duke ran round in a circle and Soo Ti ran in a ring | R |
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| And last they hurtled amongst us and then there were tales to tell | S |
| For all of us seemed to be scattered and torn | T |
| and all of us shrieked and fell | S |
| And John who is plump got an awful bump | U |
| and Helen who's tall and thin | V |
| Was shot through a shrub and gained in bruise | W |
| as much as she lost in skin | V |
| And Rosamond's frock was rent in rags and tattered in strips was Peg's | W |
| And both of them suffered the ninepin fate to the ruin of arms and legs | W |
| And every face was licked by a dog and battered was every limb | D |
| When Duke ran round in a circle and Soo Ti ran after him | D |
R. C. Lehmann
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