The Dwarf Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDD BEBEE BFBFF BGBGG BGBGG EBEBB BHBHH IJIJK BBBBB ILILL| Now Jinnie my dear to the dwarf be off | A |
| That lives in Barberry Wood | B |
| And fetch me some honey but be sure you don't laugh | C |
| He hates little girls that are rude are rude | D |
| He hates little girls that are rude | D |
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| Jane tapped at the door of the house in the wood | B |
| And the dwarf looked over the wall | E |
| He eyed her so queer 'twas as much as she could | B |
| To keep from laughing at all at all | E |
| To keep from laughing at all | E |
| - | |
| His shoes down the passage came clod clod clod | B |
| And when he opened the door | F |
| He croaked so harsh 'twas as much as she could | B |
| To keep from laughing the more the more | F |
| To keep from laughing the more | F |
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| As there with his bushy red beard he stood | B |
| Pricked out to double its size | G |
| He squinted so cross 'twas as much as she could | B |
| To keep the tears out of her eyes her eyes | G |
| To keep the tears out of her eyes | G |
| - | |
| He slammed the door and went clod clod clod | B |
| But while in the porch she bides | G |
| He squealed so fierce 'twas as much as she could | B |
| To keep from cracking her sides her sides | G |
| To keep from cracking her sides | G |
| - | |
| He threw a pumpkin over the wall | E |
| And melons and apples beside | B |
| So thick in the air that to see them all fall | E |
| She laughed and laughed till she cried cried cried | B |
| Jane laughed and laughed till she cried | B |
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| Down fell her teardrops a pit a pat pat | B |
| And red as a rose she grew | H |
| Kah kah said the dwarf is it crying you're at | B |
| It's the very worst thing you could do do do | H |
| It's the very worst thing you could do | H |
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| He slipped like a monkey up into a tree | I |
| He shook her down cherries like rain | J |
| See now says he cheeping a blackbird I be | I |
| Laugh laugh little Jinnie again gain gain | J |
| Laugh laugh little Jinnie again | K |
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| Ah me what a strange what a gladsome duet | B |
| From a house in the deeps of a wood | B |
| Such shrill and such harsh voices never met yet | B |
| A laughing as loud as they could could could | B |
| A laughing as loud as they could | B |
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| Come Jinnie come dwarf cocksparrow and bee | I |
| There's a ring gaudy green in the dell | L |
| Sing sing ye sweet cherubs that flit in the tree | I |
| La who can draw tears from a well well well | L |
| Who ever drew tears from a well | L |
Walter De La Mare
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