The Nonsense Verse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFEEEE| At the door of my own little hovel | A |
| Reading a novel I sat | B |
| And as I was reading the novel | A |
| A gnat flew away with my hat | B |
| As fast as a fraudulent banker | C |
| Away with my hat it fled | D |
| And calmly came to an anchor | C |
| In the midst of the cucumber bed | D |
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| I went and purchased a yacht | E |
| And traversed the garden tank | F |
| And I gave it that insect hot | E |
| When I got to the other bank | F |
| Of its life I made an abridgment | E |
| By squeezing it somewhat flat | E |
| But I still cannot think what that midge meant | E |
| By running away with my hat | E |
Alfred Edward Housman
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