Crabs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEFGGHHIIJJIIII KKIIIILLMM NNIILLII| On a Queensland Beach | A |
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| Poisonous bloated crab like shapes | B |
| Crawl in gangs around these capes | B |
| Stopping here and feeding there | C |
| Listening crawling everywhere | C |
| Searching every rotten weed | D |
| With a frothing wild eyed greed | D |
| Fighting o'er a lump of scurf | E |
| Or a red boil of the earth | F |
| Thrusting up their writhing claws | G |
| To their grinning fiend like maws | G |
| And these horrid creatures wet | H |
| With a thick unwholesome sweat | H |
| Have most hideous banquets here | I |
| On the poor drowned marineer | I |
| Down they hurry eagerly | J |
| Chittering all the way with glee | J |
| They have smelt the tainted air | I |
| From that body festering there | I |
| How they twitch their claws and pry | I |
| Into each distorted eye | I |
| How they spit on him with spite | K |
| As their nippers pinch and bite | K |
| How they strip him clean and bare | I |
| Leaving not a morsel there | I |
| Till they're gorged and all squat near | I |
| Fleshless remnant with a leer | I |
| When the billows near them roll | L |
| Each will scope himself a hole | L |
| In the mud banks and therein | M |
| Sleep like an embodied sin | M |
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| In the world so crass and blind | N |
| Human crabs feed on their kind | N |
| Glutted creatures that devour | I |
| All that fall within their power | I |
| Skulking each near his own hole | L |
| They smell out each human soul | L |
| Tossed up on Life's stony shore | I |
| Weary friendless weak and poor | I |
Arthur Bayldon
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