Good Little Girls Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDDDCEEFFGHHHG IIII JJKKLMMMLNNOPQRRRQ| Although of native maids the cream | A |
| We're brought up on the English scheme | A |
| The best of all | B |
| For great and small | B |
| Who modesty adore | C |
| For English girls are good as gold | D |
| Extremely modest so we're told | D |
| Demurely coy divinely cold | D |
| And we are that and more | C |
| To please papa who argues thus | E |
| All girls should mould themselves on us | E |
| Because we are | F |
| By furlongs far | F |
| The best of all the bunch | G |
| We show ourselves to loud applause | H |
| From ten to four without a pause | H |
| Which is an awkward time because | H |
| It cuts into our lunch | G |
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| Oh maids of high and low degree | I |
| Whose social code is rather free | I |
| Please look at us and you will see | I |
| What good young ladies ought to be | I |
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| And as we stand like clockwork toys | J |
| A lecturer papa employs | J |
| To puff and praise | K |
| Our modest ways | K |
| And guileless character | L |
| Our well known blush our downcast eyes | M |
| Our famous look of mild surprise | M |
| Which competition still defies | M |
| Our celebrated Sir | L |
| Then all the crowd take down our looks | N |
| In pocket memorandum books | N |
| To diagnose | O |
| Our modest pose | P |
| The kodaks do their best | Q |
| If evidence you would possess | R |
| Of what is maiden bashfulness | R |
| You only need a button press | R |
| And WE do all the rest | Q |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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