Nursery Rhyme. Lxiii. Tales Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHEH IJKJ BJBJ LJMJ BNON PQRQ LSKS TGTG UVGW JXYX KAVA UZYZ VA2GA2Old Mother Goose when | A |
She wanted to wander | B |
Would ride through the air | C |
On a very fine gander | B |
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Mother Goose had a house | D |
'Twas built in a wood | E |
Where an owl at the door | F |
For sentinel stood | E |
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This is her son Jack | G |
A plain looking lad | H |
He is not very good | E |
Nor yet very bad | H |
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She sent him to market | I |
A live goose he bought | J |
Here mother says he | K |
It will not go for nought | J |
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Jack's goose and her gander | B |
Grew very fond | J |
They'd both eat together | B |
Or swim in one pond | J |
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Jack found one morning | L |
As I have been told | J |
His goose had laid him | M |
An egg of pure gold | J |
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Jack rode to his mother | B |
The news for to tell | N |
She call'd him a good boy | O |
And said it was well | N |
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Jack sold his gold egg | P |
To a rogue of a Jew | Q |
Who cheated him out of | R |
The half of his due | Q |
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Then Jack went a courting | L |
A lady so gay | S |
As fair as the lily | K |
And sweet as the May | S |
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The Jew and the Squire | T |
Came behind his back | G |
And began to belabour | T |
The sides of poor Jack | G |
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The old Mother Goose | U |
That instant came in | V |
And turned her son Jack | G |
Into fam'd Harlequin | W |
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She then with her wand | J |
Touch'd the lady so fine | X |
And turn'd her at once | Y |
Into sweet Columbine | X |
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The gold egg into the sea | K |
Was thrown then | A |
When Jack jump'd in | V |
And got the egg back again | A |
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The Jew got the goose | U |
Which he vow'd he would kill | Z |
Resolving at once | Y |
His pockets to fill | Z |
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Jack's mother came in | V |
And caught the goose soon | A2 |
And mounting its back | G |
Flew up to the moon | A2 |
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