Mad Poll Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HIJK LFJF MJNJ| There goes mad Poll dressed in wild flowers | A |
| Poor crazy Poll now old and wan | B |
| Her hair all down like any child | C |
| She swings her two arms like a man | D |
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| Poor crazy Poll is never sad | E |
| She never misses one that dies | F |
| When neighbours show their new born babes | G |
| They seem familiar to her eyes | F |
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| Her bonnet's always in her hand | H |
| Or on the ground and lying near | I |
| She thinks it is a thing for play | J |
| Or pretty show and not to wear | K |
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| She gives the sick no sympathy | L |
| She never soothes a child that cries | F |
| She never whimpers night or day | J |
| She makes no moans she makes no sighs | F |
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| She talks about some battle old | M |
| Fought many a day from yesterday | J |
| And when that war is done her love | N |
| Ha ha Poll laughs and skips away | J |
William Henry Davies
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