Nursery Rhyme. Cccxvi. Games Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCE F

Another game played exclusively by boys Two who are fixed upon for the purpose leave the group and privately arrange that the pass word shall be some implement of a particular trade The trade is announced in the dialogue and then the fun is that the unfortunate wight who guesses the tool is beaten with the caps of his fellows till he reaches a fixed goal after which he goes out in turnA
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Two broken tradesmenB
Newly come overC
The one from France and ScotlandD
The other from DoverC
What's your tradeE
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Carpenters nailors smiths tinkers or any other is answered and on guessing the instrument plane him hammer him rasp him or solder him is called out respectively during the period of punishmentF

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