A Doe In The City Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG BBHB IJKJ LAIA M B B MA NAO PBBB EBAB| Little KITTY LORIMER | A |
| Fair and young and witty | B |
| What has brought your ladyship | C |
| Rambling to the City | B |
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| All the Stags in Capel Court | D |
| Saw her lightly trip it | E |
| All the lads of Stock Exchange | F |
| Twigg'd her muff and tippet | G |
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| With a sweet perplexity | B |
| And a mystery pretty | B |
| Threading through Threadneedle Street | H |
| Trots the little KITTY | B |
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| What was my astonishment | I |
| What was my compunction | J |
| When she reached the Offices | K |
| Of the Didland Junction | J |
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| Up the Didland stairs she went | L |
| To the Didland door Sir | A |
| Porters lost in wonderment | I |
| Let her pass before Sir | A |
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| 'Madam ' says the old chief Clerk | M |
| 'Sure we can't admit ye ' | - |
| 'Where's the Didland Junction deed ' | - |
| Dauntlessly says KITTY | B |
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| 'If you doubt my honesty | B |
| Look at my receipt Sir ' | - |
| Up then jumps the old chief Clerk | M |
| Smiling as he meets her | A |
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| KITTY at the table sits | N |
| Whither the old Clerk leads her | A |
| 'I deliver this ' she says | O |
| 'As my act and deed Sir ' | - |
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| When I heard these funny words | P |
| Come from lips so pretty | B |
| This I thought should surely be | B |
| Subject for a ditty | B |
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| What are ladies stagging it | E |
| Sure the more's the pity | B |
| But I've lost my heart to her | A |
| Naughty little KITTY | B |
William Makepeace Thackeray
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