Little Ditties I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JKJL MIMI CNCN| Winifred Waters sat and sighed | A |
| Under a weeping willow | B |
| When she went to bed she cried | A |
| Wetting all the pillow | B |
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| Kept on crying night and day | C |
| Till her friends lost patience | D |
| What shall we do to stop her pray | C |
| So said her relations | E |
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| Send her to the sandy plains | F |
| In the zone called torrid | G |
| Send her where it never rains | F |
| Where the heat is horrid | G |
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| Mind that she has only flour | H |
| For her daily feeding | I |
| Let her have a page an hour | H |
| Of the driest reading | I |
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| Navigation logarithm | J |
| All that kind of knowledge | K |
| Ancient pedigrees go with 'em | J |
| From the Heralds' College | L |
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| When the poor girl has endured | M |
| Six months of this drying | I |
| Winifred will come back cured | M |
| Let us hope of crying | I |
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| Then she will not day by day | C |
| Make those mournful faces | N |
| And we shall not have to say | C |
| Wring her pillow cases | N |
William Brighty Rands
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