Good And Bad Children Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDE FFFG BBBB HHHH| Children you are very little | A |
| And your bones are very brittle | A |
| If you would grow great and stately | B |
| You must try to walk sedately | B |
| - | |
| You must still be bright and quiet | C |
| And content with simple diet | C |
| And remain through all bewild'ring | D |
| Innocent and honest children | E |
| - | |
| Happy hearts and happy faces | F |
| Happy play in grassy places | F |
| That was how in ancient ages | F |
| Children grew to kings and sages | G |
| - | |
| But the unkind and the unruly | B |
| And the sort who eat unduly | B |
| They must never hope for glory | B |
| Theirs is quite a different story | B |
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| Cruel children crying babies | H |
| All grow up as geese and gabies | H |
| Hated as their age increases | H |
| By their nephews and their nieces | H |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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