As It Fell Upon A Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH ICIC JKJK| Oh what's befallen Bessy Brown | A |
| She stands so squalling in the street | B |
| She's let her pitcher tumble down | A |
| And all the water's at her feet | B |
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| The little school boys stood about | C |
| And laugh'd to see her pumping pumping | D |
| Now with a curtsey to the spout | C |
| And then upon her tiptoes jumping | D |
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| Long time she waited for her neighbors | E |
| To have their turns but she must lose | F |
| The watery wages of her labors | E |
| Except a little in her shoes | F |
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| Without a voice to tell her tale | G |
| And ugly transport in her face | H |
| All like a jugless nightingale | G |
| She thinks of her bereav d case | H |
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| At last she sobs she cries she screams | I |
| And pours her flood of sorrows out | C |
| From eyes and mouth in mingled streams | I |
| Just like the lion on the spout | C |
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| For well poor Bessy knows her mother | J |
| Must lose her tea for water's lack | K |
| That Sukey burns and baby brother | J |
| Must be dryrubb'd with huck a back | K |
Thomas Hood
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