Lizards And Snakes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL| On the summer road that ran by our front porch | A |
| Lizards and snakes came out to sun | B |
| It was hot as a stove out there enough to scorch | A |
| A buzzard's foot Still it was fun | B |
| To lie in the dust and spy on them Near but remote | C |
| They snoozed in the carriage ruts a smile | D |
| In the set of the jaw a fierce pulse in the throat | C |
| Working away like Jack Doyle's after he'd run the mile | D |
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| Aunt Martha had an unfair prejudice | E |
| Against them as well as being cold | F |
| Toward bats She was pretty inflexible in this | E |
| Being a spinster and all and old | F |
| So we used to slip them into her knitting box | G |
| In the evening she'd bring in things to mend | H |
| And a nice surprise would slide out from under the socks | G |
| It broadened her life as Joe said Joe was my friend | H |
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| But we never did it again after the day | I |
| Of the big wind when you could hear the trees | J |
| Creak like rocking chairs She was looking away | I |
| Off and kept saying Sweet Jesus please | J |
| Don't let him near me He's as like as twins | K |
| He can crack us like lice with his fingernail | L |
| I can see him plain as a pikestaff Look how he grins | K |
| And swings the scaly horror of his folded tail | L |
Anthony Evan Hecht
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