The Wee Man. - A Romance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE CEGE HIBI JKCK LIMI NOPO QFRF QSTS UEVE IAFA WXYX ZEA2E B2C2KD2 E2RF2G2| It was a merry company | A |
| And they were just afloat | B |
| When lo a man of dwarfish span | C |
| Came up and hailed the boat | B |
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| Good morrow to ye gentle folks | D |
| And will you let me in | E |
| A slender space will serve my case | F |
| For I am small and thin | E |
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| They saw he was a dwarfish man | C |
| And very small and thin | E |
| Not seven such would matter much | G |
| And so they took him in | E |
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| They laughed to see his little hat | H |
| With such a narrow brim | I |
| They laughed to note his dapper coat | B |
| With skirts so scant and trim | I |
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| But barely had they gone a mile | J |
| When gravely one and all | K |
| At once began to think the man | C |
| Was not so very small | K |
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| His coat had got a broader skirt | L |
| His hat a broader brim | I |
| His leg grew stout and soon plumped out | M |
| A very proper limb | I |
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| Still on they went and as they went | N |
| More rough the billows grew | O |
| And rose and fell a greater swell | P |
| And he was swelling too | O |
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| And lo where room had been for seven | Q |
| For six there scarce was space | F |
| For five for four for three not more | R |
| Than two could find a place | F |
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| There was not even room for one | Q |
| They crowded by degrees | S |
| Ay closer yet till elbows met | T |
| And knees were jogging knees | S |
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| Good sir you must not sit a stern | U |
| The wave will else come in | E |
| Without a word he gravely stirred | V |
| Another seat to win | E |
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| Good sir the boat has lost her trim | I |
| You must not sit a lee | A |
| With smiling face and courteous grace | F |
| The middle seat took he | A |
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| But still by constant quiet growth | W |
| His back became so wide | X |
| Each neighbor wight to left and right | Y |
| Was thrust against the side | X |
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| Lord how they chided with themselves | Z |
| That they had let him in | E |
| To see him grow so monstrous now | A2 |
| That came so small and thin | E |
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| On every brow a dewdrop stood | B2 |
| They grew so scared and hot | C2 |
| I' the name of all that's great and tall | K |
| Who are ye sir and what | D2 |
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| Loud laughed the Gogmagog a laugh | E2 |
| As loud as giant's roar | R |
| When first I came my proper name | F2 |
| Was Little now I'm Moore | G2 |
Thomas Hood
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