The Little Creature Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAAAAABAAAAA CCCCCC DDDDDDDAA| Twinkum twankum twirlum and twitch | A |
| My great grandam She was a Witch | A |
| Mouse in wainscot Saint in niche | A |
| My great grandam She was a Witch | A |
| Deadly nightshade flowers in a ditch | A |
| My great grandam She was a Witch | A |
| Long though the shroud it grows stitch by stitch | A |
| My great grandam She was a Witch | A |
| Wean your weakling before you breech | B |
| My great grandam She was a Witch | A |
| The fattest pig's but a double flitch | A |
| My great grandam She was a Witch | A |
| Nightjars rattle owls scritch | A |
| My great grandam She was a Witch | A |
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| Pretty and small | C |
| A mere nothing at all | C |
| Pinned up sharp in the ghost of a shawl | C |
| She'd straddle her down to the kirkyard wall | C |
| And mutter and whisper and call and call | C |
| And call | C |
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| Red blood out and black blood in | D |
| My Nannie says I'm a child of sin | D |
| How did I choose me my witchcraft kin | D |
| Know I as soon as dark's dreams begin | D |
| Snared is my heart in a nightmare's gin | D |
| Never from terror I out may win | D |
| So dawn and dusk I pine peak thin | D |
| Scarcely beknowing t'other from which | A |
| My great grandam She was a Witch | A |
Walter De La Mare
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