Excerpt - Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCD EEFFGGHHBBI JJK LLMMNNB BBBOOMMLLPPLLBB MM BB BB QQ II P BBR B SSQ OOT| 'This famous wicked little tale | A |
| Should never have been put on sale | A |
| It is a mystery to me | B |
| Why loving parents cannot see | B |
| That this is actually a book | C |
| About a brazen little crook ' | D |
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| ' Now just imagine how you'd feel | E |
| If you had cooked a lovely meal | E |
| Delicious porridge steaming hot | F |
| Fresh coffee in the coffee pot | F |
| With maybe toast and marmalade | G |
| The table beautifully laid | G |
| One place for you and one for dad | H |
| Another for your little lad | H |
| Then dad cries 'Golly gosh Gee whizz | B |
| 'Oh cripes How hot this porridge is | B |
| 'Let's take a walk along the street | I |
| 'Until it's cool enough to eat ' | - |
| He adds 'An early morning stroll | J |
| 'Is good for people on the whole | J |
| 'It makes your appetite improve | K |
| 'It also helps your bowels move ' | - |
| No proper wife would dare to question | L |
| Such a sensible suggestion | L |
| Above all not at breakfast time | M |
| When men are seldom at their prime | M |
| No sooner are you down the road | N |
| Than Goldilocks that little toad | N |
| That nosey thieving little louse | B |
| Comes sneaking in your empty house ' | - |
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| ' Here comes the next catastrophe | B |
| Most educated people choose | B |
| To rid themselves of socks and shoes | B |
| Before they clamber into bed | O |
| But Goldie didn't give a shred | O |
| Her filthy shoes were thick with grime | M |
| And mud and mush and slush and slime | M |
| Worse still upon the heel of one | L |
| Was something that a dog had done | L |
| I say once more what would you think | P |
| If all this horrid dirt and stink | P |
| Was smeared upon your eiderdown | L |
| By this revolting little clown | L |
| The famous story has no clues | B |
| To show the girl removed her shoes | B |
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| Oh what a tale of crime on crime | M |
| Let's check it for a second time | M |
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| Crime One the prosecution's case | B |
| She breaks and enters someone's place | B |
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| Crime Two the prosecutor notes | B |
| She steals a bowl of porridge oats | B |
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| Crime Three She breaks a precious chair | Q |
| Belonging to the Baby Bear | Q |
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| Crime Four She smears each spotless sheet | I |
| With filthy messes from her feet | I |
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| A judge would say without a blink | P |
| 'Ten years hard labour in the clink ' | - |
| But in the book as you will see | B |
| The little beast gets off scot free | B |
| While tiny children near and far | R |
| Shout 'Goody good Hooray Hurrah ' | - |
| 'Poor darling Goldilocks ' they say | B |
| 'Thank goodness that she got away ' | - |
| Myself I think I'd rather send | S |
| Young Goldie to a sticky end | S |
| 'Oh daddy ' cried the Baby Bear | Q |
| 'My porridge gone It isn't fair ' | - |
| 'Then go upstairs ' the Big Bear said | O |
| 'Your porridge is upon the bed | O |
| 'But as it's inside mademoiselle | T |
| 'You'll have to eat her up as well ' | - |
Roald Dahl
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