The Three Bears Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGHGIGI JKJEGDGD LEMEENENOPO PQRQSQTQT GNG NQUQU GVGW| Some time ago ere we were born or thought of | A |
| There lived a little girl who liked to roam | B |
| Through lonely woods and lanes unknown unsought of | A |
| Such folk who like to stop and stay at home | B |
| She found out curious things in all her travel | C |
| And one of her adventures I will tell | D |
| Once in a wood she saw a path of gravel | C |
| Which led to a small cottage in a dell | D |
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| And as the door stood open in walked boldly | E |
| This child whose name was Silverlocks I'm told | F |
| There was nobody there to treat her coldly | E |
| No friend to call her back no nurse to scold | F |
| She found herself within a parlour charming | G |
| And there upon the table there were placed | H |
| Three basins sending up a smell so warming | G |
| That she at once felt hungry and must taste | H |
| The largest basin first but hot and biting | G |
| The soup was in it and the second too | I |
| The smallest basin tasted so inviting | G |
| That up she ate it all with small ado | I |
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| And next she saw three chairs and tried to sit in | J |
| The biggest but it was too hard and high | K |
| The middle one she scarcely seemed to fit in | J |
| But in the smallest chair sat easily | E |
| And rocked herself her ease and comfort taking | G |
| Singing the pretty songs she knew so well | D |
| When oh the little chair cracked loud and breaking | G |
| Gave way all suddenly and down she fell | D |
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| Ah well she thought there may be beds to lie on | L |
| Upstairs I think I'll go at once and see | E |
| And so there were she said aloud I'll try one | M |
| For I am tired and sleepy as can be | E |
| The biggest bed was not of feathers surely | E |
| It was so hard and so she tried the next | N |
| And found it little better but securely | E |
| She slept upon the smallest one unvext | N |
| The little house belonged to bears not persons | O |
| The Father Bear so very rough and large | P |
| The Mother Bear I have known many worse ones | O |
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| And then the little Cub their only charge | P |
| They had gone for a walk before their dinner | Q |
| Returning Father growled Who's touched my soup | R |
| Who's touched my soup said Mother with voice thinner | Q |
| But mine said little Cub is finished up | S |
| They turned to draw their chairs a little nearer | Q |
| Who's sat in my chair growled the Father Bear | T |
| Who's sat in my chair said the Mother clearer | Q |
| And squeaked the little Cub Who's broken my small chair | T |
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| They rushed upstairs and Father Bruin growling | G |
| Cried out Who's lain upon my bed | N |
| Who's lain on mine cried Mother Bruin howling | G |
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| But some one lies on mine the small Bear said | N |
| We'll kill the child and eat her for our dinner | Q |
| The Father growled but said the Mother No | U |
| For supper she shall be and I will skin her | Q |
| No said the little Cub we'll let her go | U |
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| So Silverlocks in sudden terror flying | G |
| Reached home and when the Nurse the story hears | V |
| She says You are in luck there's no denying | G |
| To get away in safety from THREE BEARS | W |
Walter Crane
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