At The Zoo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBCDC CCECFGDC HCICCCDCThere are lions and roaring tigers | A |
and enormous camels and things | B |
There are biffalo buffalo bisons | B |
and a great big bear with wings | B |
There's a sort of a tiny potamus | B |
and a tiny nosserus too | C |
But I gave buns to the elephant | D |
when I went down to the Zoo | C |
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There are badgers and bidgers and bodgers | C |
and a Super in tendent's House | C |
There are masses of goats and a Polar | E |
and different kinds of mouse | C |
And I think there's a sort of a something | F |
which is called a wallaboo | G |
But I gave buns to the elephant | D |
when I went down to the Zoo | C |
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If you try to talk to the bison | H |
he never quite understands | C |
You can't shake hands with a mingo | I |
he doesn't like shaking hands | C |
And lions and roaring tigers | C |
hate saying How do you do | C |
But I give buns to the elephant | D |
when I go down to the Zoo | C |
Alan Alexander Milne
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