The Dolls Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEEE FGEGHIJI| Whenever you dress me dolls mammy | A |
| Why do you dress them so | B |
| And make them gallant soldiers | C |
| When never a one I know | B |
| And not as gentle ladies | D |
| With frills and frocks and curls | E |
| As people dress the dollies | E |
| Of other little girls | E |
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| Ah why did she not answer | F |
| Because your mammy's heed | G |
| Is always gallant soldiers | E |
| As well may be indeed | G |
| One of them was your daddy | H |
| His name I must not tell | I |
| He's not the dad who lives here | J |
| But one I love too well | I |
Thomas Hardy
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