A Child's Garden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDEE FFGG HHII JJHH KKLL| R L Stevenson | A |
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| Now there is nothing wrong with me | B |
| Except I think it's called T B | B |
| And that is why I have to lay | C |
| Out in the garden all the day | C |
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| Our garden is not very wide | D |
| And cars go by on either side | D |
| And make an angry hooty noise | E |
| That rather startles little boys | E |
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| But worst of all is when they take | F |
| Me out in cars that growl and shake | F |
| With charabancs so dreadful near | G |
| I have to shut my eyes for fear | G |
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| But when I'm on my back again | H |
| I watch the Croydon aeroplane | H |
| That flies across to France and sings | I |
| Like hitting thick piano strings | I |
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| When I am strong enough to do | J |
| The things I'm truly wishful to | J |
| I'll never use a car or train | H |
| But always have an aeroplane | H |
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| And just go zooming round and round | K |
| And frighten Nursey with the sound | K |
| And see the angel side of clouds | L |
| And spit on all those motor crowds | L |
Rudyard Kipling
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Ginny: its a really nice poem I had a poem challenge in my school and I told your poem and I won
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