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The poet says that once there was a little girl named Belinda. She lived in a little white
house. She lived with some creatures who were her pets. They were a black kitten, a grey
mouse, a yellow dog, a little red wagon and a creature that the poet says was really and
truly a dragon.

Literary Devices:
 Rhyme scheme: aabb (house-mouse, wagon-dragon)
 Repetition: use of the word ‘little’
 oxymoron: use of two words with opposite meanings ‘ “pet dragon”
 Anaphora: repeated use of word at the start of two consecutive lines. (And a
little ….And a realio)
 Refrain: Repetition of a sentence again and again (And a realio, trulio,)
 Poetic license: realio, trulio for real, true. The spellings have been changed to
create a musical effect
Stanza 2
Now the name of the little black kitten was Ink,
And the little grey mouse, she called him Blink,
And the little yellow dog was sharp as Mustard,
But the dragon was a coward, and she called him Custard.

Mustard: a yellow coloured flower
Coward: weakling

The poet explains the name of all the animals that are tamed by Belinda. He says that the
name of black kitten is Ink. The name of grey mouse is blink. The little yellow dog had yellow
colour and so she calls him Mustard and the dragon that was a coward means was a
weakling was called Custard.

Literary Devices:

 Rhyme scheme: aabb (Ink-Blink, Mustard-Custard)
 simile: dog compared to mustard “And the little yellow dog was sharp as
Mustard”
 Alliteration: “coward, and she called him Custard” - “c” sound
 Anaphora: repeated use of word at the start of two consecutive lines
(And the little grey…And the little yellow)
 Repetition: use of word little
Stanza 3
Custard the dragon had big sharp teeth,
And spikes on top of him and scales underneath,
Mouth like a fireplace, chimney for a nose,
And realio, trulio daggers on his toes.

Spikes: thin pointed surface
Scales: Thin bony plates protecting the skin of fish and reptiles.
Underneath: situated directly below